Lamentations 3:21

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet I call this to mind,and therefore I have hope:

Hebrew Names Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

King James Version
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

English Standard Version
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

New American Standard Bible
I recall this to my mind, Therefore I wait.

New Century Version
But I have hope when I think of this:

Amplified Bible
But this I call to mind, Therefore I have hope.

World English Bible
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

Legacy Standard Bible
This I will return to my heart;Therefore I will wait in hope.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Contemporary English Version
Then I remember something that fills me with hope.

Complete Jewish Bible
But in my mind I keep returning to something, something that gives me hope —

Darby Translation
—This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

Easy-to-Read Version
But then I think about this, and I have hope:

George Lamsa Translation
This I recall to mind; therefore I have hope in God.

Good News Translation
Yet hope returns when I remember this one thing:

Lexham English Bible
This I have reminded myself, therefore I will hope.

Literal Translation
I bring back this to my heart. On account of this I hope.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Whyle I cosidre these thinges in my hert, I get a hope agayne.

American Standard Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.

Bible in Basic English
This I keep in mind, and because of this I have hope.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

King James Version (1611)
This I recall to my mind, therefore haue I hope.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
This will I lay up in my heart, therefore I will endure.

English Revised Version
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Zai. Y bithenkynge these thingis in myn herte, schal hope in God.

Update Bible Version
This I recall to my mind; therefore I have hope.

Webster's Bible Translation
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

New English Translation
But this I call to mind; therefore I have hope:

New King James Version
This I recall to my mind, Therefore I have hope.

New Living Translation
Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this:

New Life Bible
But this I remember, and so I have hope.

New Revised Standard
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
This, will I bring back to my heart, therefore, will I hope.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

Revised Standard Version
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Young's Literal Translation
This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope.

Contextual Overview

²² God 's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left. ²⁵ God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks. It's a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God . It's a good thing when you're young to stick it out through the hard times. ²⁸When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence. Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear. Don't run from trouble. Take it full-face. The "worst" is never the worst. ³¹Why? Because the Master won't ever walk out and fail to return. If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense. He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way: ³⁴Stomping down hard on luckless prisoners, Refusing justice to victims in the court of High God, Tampering with evidence— the Master does not approve of such things.

Bible Verse Review
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recall to my mind: Heb. make to return to my heart, Psalms 77:7-11

therefore: Lamentations 3:24-29, Psalms 119:81, Psalms 130:7, Habakkuk 2:3

Reciprocal: Psalms 48:14 - this God Psalms 71:14 - But Ecclesiastes 9:4 - General Jeremiah 31:17 - General Hosea 2:15 - for Jonah 2:7 - I remembered Zechariah 9:12 - even 1 Corinthians 13:13 - hope

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
The Woman said to the serpent, "Not at all. We can eat from the trees in the garden. It's only about the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘Don't eat from it; don't even touch it or you'll die.'"

Genesis 3:7
Immediately the two of them did "see what's really going on"—saw themselves naked! They sewed fig leaves together as makeshift clothes for themselves.

Isaiah 61:10
I will sing for joy in God , explode in praise from deep in my soul! He dressed me up in a suit of salvation, he outfitted me in a robe of righteousness, As a bridegroom who puts on a tuxedo and a bride a jeweled tiara. For as the earth bursts with spring wildflowers, and as a garden cascades with blossoms, So the Master, God , brings righteousness into full bloom and puts praise on display before the nations.

2 Corinthians 5:21
How? you ask. In Christ. God put the wrong on him who never did anything wrong, so we could be put right with God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This I recall to my mind,.... Not affliction and misery, but the Lord's remembrance of his people; what he had been used to do, and would do again; and particularly what follows, the abundant mercy of God, and his great faithfulness; these things the prophet fetched back to his mind; and revolved them in his heart; says he,

and therefore have I hope; this revived his hope, which he was ready to say was perished from the Lord, and there was no foundation for it; but now he saw there was, and therefore took heart, and encouraged himself in the grace and mercy of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This I recall - Rather, “This will I bring back to my heart, therefore will I hope.” Knowing that God hears the prayer of the contrite, he begins again to hope.