Lamentations 3:19-36
The Prophet’s Hope

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

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20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

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21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

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22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.

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24 The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

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

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26 [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

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27 [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

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28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.

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29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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30 He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

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31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

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32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

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33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

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34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

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35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

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36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

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