We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
Psalm 77:8 - English Standard Version 2016 Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time? Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have His mercy and loving-kindness ceased forever? Have His promises ended for all time? American Standard Version (1901) Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Common English Bible Has his faithful love come to a complete end? Is his promise over for future generations? Catholic Public Domain Version May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. |
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me?
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture?
When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
Why is my pain unceasing, my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will you be to me like a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?
According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.