Lamentations 3:26
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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Study Note
Amid the extended lament of Lamentations 3 — the collection's theological center — the declaration 'it is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD' is the most clearly hopeful statement in the book, emerging from the deepest grief. The affirmation is not naive optimism but the hard-won conviction of one who has sat in darkness (3:6), been shut out of prayer (3:8), and driven into desolation, yet has recalled the LORD's mercies (3:22-23) and found them new. The verb 'wait' (yaqaw) implies hope directed toward a specific coming event — salvific divine action — rather than indefinite patience with no object. The verse has been central to Jewish and Christian theologies of suffering and hope, modeling how trust can be maintained through the acknowledgment rather than the denial of devastating loss.
Другие переводы
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
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I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight.
Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.