and therefore I have hope

"My soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is;

so I say, 'My endurance has perished; so has my hope from the Lord.'

Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me.

"But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;

his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

'The Lord is my portion,' says my soul, 'therefore I will hope in him.'"

 -Lamentations 3