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Lamentations 3:18

Context

3:18 So I said, “My endurance has expired;

I have lost all hope of deliverance¹ from the Lord.”

Lamentations 3:24-25

Context

3:24 “My portion is the Lord,” I have said to myself,²

so I will put my hope in him.

ט (Tet)

3:25 The Lord is good to those who trust³ in him,

to the one⁴ who seeks him.

¹tn Heb “and my hope from the Lord.” The hope is for deliverance. The words, “I have lost all…” have been supplied in the translation in order to clarify the Hebrew idiom for the English reader.

²tn Heb “My soul said…” The term נַפְשִׁי (nafshi, “my soul”) is a synecdoche of part (= my soul) for the whole person (= I ).

³tn Heb “wait for him”

⁴tn Heb “to the soul…” The term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) is a synecdoche of part (= “the soul who seeks him”) for the whole person (= “the person who seeks him”).

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