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Lamentations 3:26-47

26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.28Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.29Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.31For the Lord will not cast off for ever.32For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.33For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.37Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?38Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.42We have transgressed and have rebelled; thou hast not pardoned.43Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.45Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

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