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Young's Literal Translation

Lamentations 3:21

This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Despondency;   Hope;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Providence of God;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua B. Hananiah;   Polemics and Polemical Literature;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for January 17;  

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:

Contextual Overview

21 This I turn to my heart -- therefore I hope. 22 The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. 23 New every morning, abundant [is] thy faithfulness. 24 My portion [is] Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him. 25 Good [is] Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul [that] seeketh Him. 26 Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah. 27 Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth. 28 He sitteth alone, and is silent, For He hath laid [it] upon him. 29 He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope. 30 He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
And the woman saith unto the serpent, `Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we do eat,
Genesis 3:3
and of the fruit of the tree which [is] in the midst of the garden God hath said, Ye do not eat of it, nor touch it, lest ye die.'
Genesis 3:7
and the eyes of them both are opened, and they know that they [are] naked, and they sew fig-leaves, and make to themselves girdles.
Isaiah 61:10
I greatly rejoice in Jehovah, Joy doth my soul in my God, For He clothed me with garments of salvation, With a robe of righteousness covereth Me, As a bridegroom prepareth ornaments, And as a bride putteth on her jewels.
Romans 3:22
and the righteousness of God [is] through the faith of Jesus Christ to all, and upon all those believing, -- for there is no difference,
2 Corinthians 5:21
for him who did not know sin, in our behalf He did make sin, that we may become the righteousness of God in him.

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.


 
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