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ThisזֹאתI will bring backאָשִׁיבto my heart;אֶל לִבִּיthereforeעַל כֵּןI will await.אוֹחִיל
Lamentations 3:21
Study it in the app“This I will bring back to my heart; therefore I will await.”
Amid the ruins, the poet recalls: they are new every morningFaithfulnessThe poet remembers and waits: YHWH’s mercies are “new every morning”Hope
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 3:21, word by word
- I will bring backאָשִׁיבashiv
bring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “ashiv” appears- to my heartלִבִּlibi
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appears- I will awaitאוֹחִילochil
wait, hope
Wait patiently; hope.
Where else “ochil” appears
The context
20My soul surely remembers and sinks down within me.
21 · This verse (above)
22The loyal loves of YHWH: indeed we have not been consumed, for his mercies have not come to an end.