Lamentations 3:21

21 Zain This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.

Lamentations 3:21 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:21

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.

Lamentations 3:21 In-Context

19 Zain Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 Zain My soul shall have them still in remembrance because it is humbled in me.
21 Zain This shall go down into my heart; therefore I shall wait.
22 Chet It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.
23 Chet They are new every morning; great is thy faith.
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