Lamentations 3:22-30

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

²³ Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness.

²⁴ Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul: therefore will I wait for him.

²⁵ Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

²⁶ Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

²⁷ Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

²⁸ Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

²⁹ Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

³⁰ Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.