“Second, memory reduces itself to the benefits the people received. "My soul continually thinks of it," the benefits. And: "is bowed down within me." That is, memory fails from admiration, or desire. As Psalm 42:4 says: "These things I remember, as I pour out my soul."”
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c. — Commentary on Lamentations
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20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
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18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
19Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
— Lamentations 3:20 —
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.