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My soul still remembers them, and is bowed down within me.
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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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19th Century
Anglican
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…
Baptist
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…
16th Century
Protestant
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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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My soul has [them] still in remembrance That is, according to our version, affliction and misery, compared to wormwo…
Presbyterian
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Here he presents arguments to exclude despair.
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