Lamentations 3:21-39

21— This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.

22It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

23they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.

26It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.

27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth:

28He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him;

29he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope;

30he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach.

31For the Lord will not cast off for ever;

32but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:

33for he doth not willingly afflict or 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 wrong a man in his cause, — will not the Lord see it?

37Who is he that saith, and there cometh to pass, what the Lord hath not commanded?

38Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?

39Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?