Lamentations 3:21 (GNV)

Passage

I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:19 Remembring mine affliction, and my mourning, the wormewood and the gall.

Lamentations 3:20 My soule hath them in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

Lamentations 3:21 I consider this in mine heart: therefore haue I hope.

Lamentations 3:22 It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.

Lamentations 3:23 They are renued euery morning: great is thy faithfulnesse.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "consider", "mine", "heart", "therefore", "haue", and "hope". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "consider" and "mine", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 20's "My soule hath them in remembrance and..." into verse 22's "It is the Lordes mercies that wee...", so "consider" and "mine" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "consider" and "mine" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.