Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Lamentations 3:21-23
Lamentations 3:21-23. This I recall to my mind, &c. Here the prophet begins to suggest motives of patience and consolation: as if he had said, I call to mind the following considerations, and thereupon I conceive hope and comfort. And surely they are such as afford a sufficient ground for trusting in God under the severest trials. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed It is not clear that this is the exact sense of the Hebrew, in which there is nothing for it is of. ... read more
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Lamentations 3:24
The Lord is my portion - “My portion is Yahweh,” see Numbers 18:20; Psalms 16:5 ff.Therefore will I hope in him - A more full expression of the confidence present in the prophet’s mind in Lamentations 3:21, but based now upon God’s faithfulness in showing mercy. read more