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Lamentations 3:31

New American Bible - revised edition

For the Lord does not reject forever;

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We must indeed die; we are then like water that is poured out on the ground and cannot be gathered up. Yet, though God does not bring back to life, he does devise means so as not to banish anyone from him.

I will humble David’s line for this, but not forever.”

I remember. At night I ponder in my heart; and as I meditate, my spirit probes:

For the Lord will not forsake his people, nor abandon his inheritance.

Driving out and expelling, he struggled against it, carrying it off with his cruel wind on a day of storm.

For I will not accuse forever, nor always be angry; For without me their spirit fails, the life breath that I have given.

Thus says the Lord: If the heavens on high could be measured, or the foundations below the earth be explored, Then would I reject all the offspring of Israel because of all they have done—oracle of the Lord. Jerusalem Rebuilt.

With them I will make an everlasting covenant, never to cease doing good to them; I will put fear of me in their hearts so that they never turn away from me.

Have you not noticed what these people are saying: “The Lord has rejected the two tribes he had chosen”? They hold my people in contempt as if it were no longer a nation in their eyes.

Who is a God like you, who removes guilt and pardons sin for the remnant of his inheritance; Who does not persist in anger forever, but instead delights in mercy,

Thus says the Lord: though fully intact and so numerous, they shall be mown down and disappear. Though I have humbled you, I will humble you no more.

For the sake of his own great name the Lord will not abandon his people, since the Lord has decided to make you his people.




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