Lamentations 3:24
Good News Translation
The LORD is all I have, and so in him I put my hope.

New Revised Standard Version
“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.”

Contemporary English Version
Deep in my heart I say, "The LORD is all I need; I can depend on him!"

New American Bible
The LORD is my portion, I tell myself, therefore I will hope in him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

my portion

Psalm 16:5 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 73:26 For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 119:57 O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.

Psalm 142:5 I cried to thee, O Lord: I said: Thou art my hope, my portion in the land of the living.

Jeremiah 10:16 The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Jeremiah 51:19 The portion of Jacob is not like them: for he that made all things he it is, and Israel is the sceptre of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

therefore

Lamentations 3:21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart, therefore will I hope.

1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly afflicted: for the people had a mind to stone him, for the soul of every man was bitterly grieved for his sons and daughters: but David took courage in the Lord his God.

1 Chronicles 5:20 Gave them help. And the Agarites were delivered into their hands, and all that were with them, because they called upon God in the battle: and he heard them, because they had put their faith in him.

Job 13:15 Although he should kill me, I will trust in him: but yet I will reprove my ways in his sight.

Psalm 31:24 Do ye manfully, and let your heart be strengthened, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Psalm 33:18 Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me? Hope thou in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance, and my God.

Psalm 43:5 To thee, O God my God, I will give praise upon the harp: why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou disquiet me?

Psalm 62:8 Trust in him, all ye congregation of people: pour out your hearts before him. God is our helper for ever.

Psalm 84:12 He will not deprive of good things them that walk in innocence: O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalm 130:7 Because with the Lord there is mercy: and with him plentiful redemption.

Romans 15:12 And again, Isaias saith: There shall be a root of Jesse; and he that shall rise up to rule the Gentiles, in him the Gentiles shall hope.

1 Peter 1:21 Who through him are faithful in God who raised him up from the dead and hath given him glory, that your faith and hope might be in God.

Context
Jeremiah's Hope
23Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. 24Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.…
Cross References
Psalm 16:5
The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me.

Psalm 33:18
Behold the eyes of the Lord are on them that fear him: and on them that hope in his mercy.

Psalm 42:5
Why art thou sad, O my soul? and why dost thou trouble me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance,

Psalm 73:26
For thee my flesh and my heart hath fainted away: thou art the God of my heart, and the God that is my portion for ever.

Psalm 119:57
O Lord, my portion, I have said, I would keep thy law.

Jeremiah 10:16
The portion of Jacob is not like these: for it is he who formed all things: and Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of hosts is his name.

Lamentations 3:23
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