Lamentations 3:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

Lamentations 3:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:7
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Psalms 37:34
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalms 130:5
I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
Hebrews 10:35
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Genesis 49:18
I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-36)

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 a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break. To save the heart from being quite broken, here is something called to mind, which gives ground for hope (Lam. 3:21), which refers to what comes…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

25-27. The repetition of “good” at the beginning of each of the three verses heightens the effect. wait--(Is 30:18).