Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Lamentations 3:21
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.
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.
CHAPTER 3 THE PROPHET'S SUFFERING AND DISTRESS This chapter is intensely personal. None but Jeremiah could have written these wonderful expressions of sorrow, the sorrows of the people of God into whi...
LAMENTATIONS 3. THE THIRD LAMENT. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in Lamentations 3:2 it was Yahweh. EV hardly puts Lamentation...
MIND. heart. HOPE. expectation....
This and the previous _v_. are akin in thought to Psalms 42:4-5 (Hebrews 5:6), and, inasmuch as the words there corresponding to _This I recall_of the present passage have reference to that which foll...
THEREFORE HAVE I HOPE— Compare this with the 12th, 13th, and 14th verses of the 20th chapter of Jeremiah....
II. HIS CONFESSION OF FAITH Lamentations 3:19-39 Since the poet's outlook was bleak he tries the uplook. He calls upon God to remember his predicament (Lamentations 3:19) because he himself is not abl...
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. (.) REMEMBERING MINE AFFLICTION ... This gives the reason why he gave way to the temptation to despair implied in , "My hope is...
REMEMBERING] RV 'remember,' in the imperative sense (Lamentations 1:7). THIS I RECALL] viz. what just precedes, his affliction....
ZION'S HOPE IN GOD'S MERCY This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for himself, but for the nation. The order of thought is...
JEREMIAH WEEPS IN THE DARKNESS LAMENTATIONS _ROY ROHU_ CHAPTER 3 JEREMIAH SPEAKS. In this chapter, the writer speaks on behalf of all God’s people. Much of what he says is true also of the troub...
THIS I RECALL TO MY MIND. — Better, _This will I recall._ The first gleam of hope breaks through the darkness. The sorrow has not been in vain; it has brought humility, and out of humility springs hop...
זֹ֛את אָשִׁ֥יב אֶל ־לִבִּ֖י עַל ־כֵּ֥ן אֹוחִֽ
THE MAN THAT HATH SEEN AFFLICTION Lamentations 3:1 WHETHER we regard it from a literary, a speculative, or a religious point of view, the third and central elegy cannot fail to strike us as by far th...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which throbs with pain, he described his own sorrows, re...
_Hope. The remembrance fills him with grief and hope, chap. xx. 12. (Haydock)_...
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This...
We see here what I have already stated, that if we struggle against temptations, it will be a sure remedy to us, because our faith will at length emerge again, and gather strength, yea, it will in a m...
In chapter 3 we find the language of faith, of sorrowing faith, of the Spirit of Christ in the remnant, on the occasion of the judgment of Jerusalem in which God had dwelt. Before, the prophet (or the...
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...
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. Ver. 21. _This I recall to my mind._] This? What? God's infinite mercies, that cape of good hope; see Lam 3:22 Psalms 119:56; "This I had" - that is,...
_This I recall to my mind_, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope an...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed...
This, namely, the fact that his soul is deeply afflicted by the mere remembrance of his sufferings, I RECALL TO MY MIND, taking it to heart, THEREFORE HAVE I HOPE. Throwing off the feeling of despair...
RECALL TO MY MIND: _ Heb._ make to return to my heart...
21-36 Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse. We should observe what makes...
This, not what was already said, that made them despair, and their souls to bow down; but this, that which followeth, concerning the nature of God, and other good providences. I see nothing in the cir...
Lamentations 3:21 recall H7725 (H8686) mind H3820 hope H3176 (H8686) recall to my mind - Psalms 77:7-11...
THE PROPHET PRAYS HIS WAY THROUGH TO CONFIDENCE IN YHWH (LAMENTATIONS 3:19). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one thing to do, and that is to cast ourselves on God. That i...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition.» Well then, be thankful that you are not, and whil...
The first part of this chapter is one of the saddest in the whole Book of God; yet I expect it has ministered as much consolation as some of the brightest pages of Holy Writ, because there are childre...
I am about to read a portion of Holy Scripture which may seem very strange to some of you, but it belongs to a part of the congregation, and I hope it may be the means of giving them comfort. I read i...
CONTENTS: Complaint of God's displeasure and comfort to God's people. Appeal to God's justice against persecutors. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah. CONCLUSION: Bad as things may be, it is owing to the mer...
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look better, and read more poetically, if the hemistichs...
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:1 I Am the Man Who Has Seen Affliction. Chapter Lamentations 3:1 has one speaker, a man who has endured suffering, expe
LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON LAMENTATIONS 3:21 This verse marks a change in the speaker’s attitude. The contentment he remembers renews the HOPE lost in v. Lamentatio
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Lamentations 3:18. This reads like an account of the climax to the trials undergone. I SAID, as if talking to myself, MY STRENGTH IS PERISHED, AND MY EXPECTATION FROM JEHOVAH. The f...
EXPOSITION LAMENTATIONS 3:1 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF THE
In this third lamentation he begins from the depth of depression and despair. He begins with hopelessness, and hopelessness is always the experience behind depression. Depression is the loss of hope,...
Habakkuk 2:3; Lamentations 3:24; Psalms 119:81; Psalms 130:7;...
This — Which follows, concerning the nature of God, and his good providences....