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Lamentations 3:39

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Why should any living person complain, any man, because of the punishment for his sins?

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Because I have sinned against him, I must endure the  Lord’s fury until he champions my cause and establishes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see his salvation.  ,


A person’s own foolishness leads him astray, yet his heart rages against the  Lord.


Why do you cry out about your injury? Your pain has no cure! I have done these things to you because of your enormous guilt and your innumerable sins.


Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end.


Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the  Lord’s fury, the rebuke of your God.


He would show you the secrets of wisdom, for true wisdom has two sides. Know then that God has chosen to overlook some of your iniquity.


After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt #– #though you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have allowed us to survive  ,  #– #


Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders  were sitting with him. The king sent a man ahead of him, but before the messenger got to him, Elisha said to the elders, ‘Do you see how this murderer  has sent someone to remove my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Isn’t the sound of his master’s feet behind him? ’


However, Elisha said to King Joram of Israel, ‘What do we have in common? Go to the prophets of your father and your mother! ’ But the king of Israel replied, ‘No, because it is the Lord who has summoned these three kings to hand them over to Moab.’


Then the Israelites declared to Moses, ‘Look, we’re perishing! We’re lost; we’re all lost!


So Moses asked the Lord, ‘Why have you brought such trouble on your servant? Why are you angry with me,  and why do you burden me with all these people?


For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they make amends for their iniquity, because they rejected my ordinances and abhorred my statutes.


and I acted with hostility towards them and brought them into the land of their enemies #– #and when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled  and they make amends for their iniquity,


and people were scorched by the intense heat. So they blasphemed the name of God,  who has the power  over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.


The next day the entire Israelite community complained about Moses and Aaron,  saying, ‘You have killed the Lord’s people! ’


While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger  came down to him. Then he said, ‘This disaster is from the Lord. Why should I wait for the Lord any longer? ’


as you turn your anger  against God and allow such words to leave your mouth?


Woe to me because of my brokenness – I am severely wounded! I exclaimed, ‘This is my intense suffering, but I must bear it.’





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