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The Turning Point to Hope
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon and Matthew Henry see this verse as a crucial pivot. The act of fully remembering the affliction and being humbled by it is not the end of faith, but the very turning point. It represents the moment of deepest darkness just before the dawn of hope, where the soul, stripped of its own strength, begins to look upward.
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Lamentations
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Charles Ellicott
On Lamentations 3:20
19th Century
Bishop
My soul has ... —The verb, as in Lamentations 3:17, may be either in the second person or the third; the former gives, You wil…
Charles Spurgeon
On Lamentations 3:18–21
19th Century
Preacher
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 ha…
John Calvin
On Lamentations 3:20
16th Century
Theologian
The Prophet seems, in other words, to confirm what he had said: namely, that the memory of afflictions overwhelmed his soul. For the soul is said t…
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John Gill
On Lamentations 3:20
17th Century
Pastor
My soul has [them] still in remembrance
That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwo…
Matthew Henry
On Lamentations 3:1–20
17th Century
Minister
The prophet relates the more gloomy and discouraging part of his experience, and how he found support and relief. In the time of his trial the Lord…