Lamentations 3:21-27
1599 Geneva Bible
21 I consider this in mine heart: therefore have I hope.
22 It is the Lord’s [a]mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 They are renewed [b]every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24 The Lord is my [c]portion, saith my soul: therefore will I hope in him.
25 The Lord is good unto them that trust in him, and to the soul that seeketh him.
26 It is good both to trust, and to wait for the salvation of the Lord.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his [d]youth.
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- Lamentations 3:22 Considering the wickedness of man, it is [a] marvel that any remaineth alive: but only that God for his own mercy’s sake and for his promise, will ever have his Church to remain, though they be never so few in number, Isa. 1:9.
- Lamentations 3:23 We feel thy benefits daily.
- Lamentations 3:24 The godly put their whole confidence in God, and therefore look for none other inheritance, as Ps. 16:5.
- Lamentations 3:27 He showeth that we can never begin too timely to be exercised under the cross, that when the afflictions grow greater, our patience also by experience may be stronger.
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