Lamentations 3:26-47

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?

40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.

41Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto 1God in the heavens.

42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through.

45Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

46All our enemies have opened their mouth against us.

47Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and ruin.