Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness.
The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him. Lamentations 3:19-24
Jeremiah suffered much. He was alone, except for God in many circumstances.
God was always there for him.
We can always look at some of the sufferings of the prophets and see what God allowed them to go through,
It might just help us understand our own sufferings,
recognizing how God worked in their lives and performed His will.
Most of all, how they drew close to God in adverse circumstances.
Jeremiah still had hope. His hope was not in his circumstances. His hope was in the Lord.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Lamentations 3:26
Even in Jeremiah’s suffering, he found hope in God.
In his hurting, he said one of the most beautiful and profound sentiments in the bible:
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. Lamentations 3:40-41
Jeremiah realized that his suffering brought him to a place of humility before the Lord and closer to Him.
He gave to God all that he had to give and then found the treasure in giving of his own heart,
and then encouraged all of us to do the same as he had learned to hope in the Lord.