Contradictions and Paradoxes in Lamentations 3:21

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Lamentations 3:21 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Lamentations 3:21. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Jeremiah, when he remembers good things, it makes him feel hopeful. Thinking about happy or positive memories can help us feel better when we are sad.

Lamentations 3:21: This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. [recall...: Heb. make to return to my heart]

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 2:17

Explains a profound sense of despair and hatred for life, whereas Lamentations 3:21 focuses on finding hope.

Ecclesiastes 2:17: Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 4:3

Suggests that those who have never existed are better off, contrasting the hope found in Lamentations 3:21.

Ecclesiastes 4:3: Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Contradiction with Job 3:3

Expresses a wish to not have been born as opposed to recalling hope as in Lamentations 3:21.

Job 3:3: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night [in which] it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Contradiction with 1 Samuel 15:35

Depicts unending grief, unlike the renewal of hope in Lamentations 3:21.

1 Samuel 15:35: And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 20:14

Curses the day of birth in distress, conflicting with the hope and remembrance in Lamentations 3:21.

Jeremiah 20:14: Cursed [be] the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
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