Lamentations 3:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ It is good for one to bear the yoke in youth,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear The yoke in his youth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ It is good for a man that he should bear the yoke [of divine disciplinary dealings] in his youth.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁷ It’s good for a man to carry a yoke in his youth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ TETH. It is good for a man, when he has carried the yoke from his youth.

Lamentations 3:27 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Psalm 119:71

It is good for me that I was humbled, so that I might learn your statutes.

Psalm 94:12

Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law,

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Lamentations 3:26

It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

Lamentations 3:28

to sit alone in silence when the Lord has imposed it,