We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.
Lamentations 3:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 For the Lord will not reject forever. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For the Lord will not Cast off for ever: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For the Lord will not cast off forever! [Ps. 94:14.] American Standard Version (1901) For the Lord will not cast off for ever. Common English Bible My Lord definitely won’t reject forever. Catholic Public Domain Version CAPH. For the Lord will not rebuke forever. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever. |
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up. But God will not take away a life; he will devise plans so as not to keep an outcast banished forever from his presence.
For this reason I will punish the descendants of David, but not forever.”
For the Lord will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage;
By expulsion, by exile you struggled against them; with his fierce blast he removed them in the day of the east wind.
For I will not continually accuse, nor will I always be angry, for then the spirits would grow faint before me, even the souls that I have made.
Thus says the Lord: If the heavens above can be measured and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will reject all the offspring of Israel because of all they have done, says the Lord.
I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.
Have you not observed how these people say, “The two families that the Lord chose have been rejected by him,” and how they hold my people in such contempt that they no longer regard them as a nation?
Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of his possession? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in showing steadfast love.
Thus says the Lord: Though they are at full strength and many, they will be cut off and pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
For the Lord will not cast away his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.