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…

This I recall - Rather, “This will I bring back to my heart, therefore will I hope.” Knowing that God hears the prayer of the contrite, he begins again to hope.

Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look…

This and the previous v. are akin in thought to Psa 42:4-5 (Hebrews 5, 6), and, inasmuch as the words there corresponding to This I recallof the present passage have reference to that which follows,…