The Pulpit Commentary on Lamentations 3:26

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Should both hope and quietly wait; rather, should wait in silence. "Silence'' is an expression of the psalmist's (the Lamentations are psalms) for resignation to the will of God; comp. Psalms 62:1 (Hebrew, 2); Psalms 65:1 (Hebrew, 2), and see Authorized Version, margin.

The thought of the verse is that of Psalms 37:7.

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