Lamentations 3:21-39

21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

22Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end.

23They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness!

24I say, “The Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in him.”

25The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the person who seeks him.

26It is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.

27It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.

28Let him sit alone and be silent, for God has disciplined him.

29Let him put his mouth in the dust  — perhaps there is still hope.

30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with disgrace.

31For the Lord will not reject us forever.

32Even if he causes suffering, he will show compassion according to the abundance of his faithful love.

33For he does not enjoy bringing affliction or suffering on mankind.

34Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,

35denying justice to a man in the presence of the Most High,

36or subverting a person in his lawsuit  — the Lord does not approve of these things.

37Who is there who speaks and it happens, unless the Lord has ordained it?

38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

39Why should any living person complain, any man, because of the punishment for his sins?