Lamentations 3:21

21 ZAI hoc recolens in corde meo ideo sperabo

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 ZAI recordare paupertatis et transgressionis meae absinthii et fellis
20 ZAI memoria memor ero et tabescet in me anima mea
21 ZAI hoc recolens in corde meo ideo sperabo
22 HETH misericordiae Domini quia non sumus consumpti quia non defecerunt miserationes eius
23 HETH novae diluculo multa est fides tua
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