New American Standard Bible 2020

Lamentations 3:21-36

21I recall this to my mind, Therefore I 1 2wait.22 3The Lord’s 4acts of mercy indeed do not end, 5For His compassions do not fail.23They are new 6every morning; Great is 7Your faithfulness.24“The Lord is my 8portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I 9 10wait for Him.”25The Lord is good to those who 11 12await Him, To the 13person who 14seeks Him.26It is good that he 15waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.27It is good for a man to bear The yoke in his youth.28Let him 16sit alone and keep quiet, Since He has laid it on him.29Let him 17put his mouth in the 18dust; Perhaps there is 19hope.30Let him give his 20cheek to the one who is going to strike him; Let him be filled with shame.31For the Lord will 21not reject forever,32For if He causes grief, Then He will have 22compassion In proportion to His abundant mercy.33For He 23does not 24afflict 25willingly Or 26grieve the sons of mankind.34To crush under 27one’s feet All the prisoners of the 28land,35To 29deprive a man of 30justice In the presence of the Most High,36To 31 32defraud someone in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not 33approve.

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Notes

1. Lamentations 3:21 Lit have hope ↩
2. Lamentations 3:21 Ps 130:7 ↩
3. Lamentations 3:22 As in ancient versions; MT It is...mercy that we do not end ↩
4. Lamentations 3:22 Ps 78:38; Jer 3:12; 30:11 ↩
5. Lamentations 3:22 Mal 3:6 ↩
6. Lamentations 3:23 Is 33:2; Zeph 3:5 ↩
7. Lamentations 3:23 Heb 10:23 ↩
8. Lamentations 3:24 Ps 16:5; 73:26 ↩
9. Lamentations 3:24 Or hope in ↩
10. Lamentations 3:24 Ps 33:18 ↩
11. Lamentations 3:25 Or hope in ↩
12. Lamentations 3:25 Ps 27:14; Is 25:9 ↩
13. Lamentations 3:25 Lit soul ↩
14. Lamentations 3:25 Is 26:9 ↩
15. Lamentations 3:26 Ps 37:7 ↩
16. Lamentations 3:28 Jer 15:17 ↩
17. Lamentations 3:29 Lit give ↩
18. Lamentations 3:29 Job 16:15; 40:4 ↩
19. Lamentations 3:29 Jer 31:17 ↩
20. Lamentations 3:30 Job 16:10; Is 50:6 ↩
21. Lamentations 3:31 Ps 77:7; 94:14; Is 54:7-10 ↩
22. Lamentations 3:32 Ps 78:38; 106:43-45; Hos 11:8 ↩
23. Lamentations 3:33 Ps 119:67, 71, 75; Ezek 33:11; Heb 12:10 ↩
24. Lamentations 3:33 Or oppress ↩
25. Lamentations 3:33 Lit from His heart ↩
26. Lamentations 3:33 Or torment ↩
27. Lamentations 3:34 Lit his ↩
28. Lamentations 3:34 Or earth ↩
29. Lamentations 3:35 Or turn aside a man’s case ↩
30. Lamentations 3:35 Ps 140:12; Prov 17:15 ↩
31. Lamentations 3:36 Lit bend ↩
32. Lamentations 3:36 Jer 22:3; Hab 1:13 ↩
33. Lamentations 3:36 Lit see ↩

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