Lamentations 3:39

New American Bible - revised edition

What should the living complain about? about their sins!

Cross References

2 Kings 3:13

Elisha asked the king of Israel, “What do you want with me? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother.” The king of Israel replied, “No, the Lord has called these three kings together only to deliver us into the power of Moab.”

2 Kings 6:32

Meanwhile, Elisha was sitting in his house in conference with the elders. The king had sent one of his courtiers; but before the messenger reached him, Elisha said to the elders: “Do you know that this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you close the door and hold it fast against him. His master’s footsteps are echoing behind him.”

2 Kings 6:33

While Elisha was still speaking, the messenger came down to him and said, “This evil is from the Lord. Why should I trust in the Lord any longer?”

Ezra 9:13

“After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and our great guilt—though you, our God, have made less of our sinfulness than it deserved and have allowed us to survive as we do—

Job 11:6

And tell you the secrets of wisdom, for good sense has two sides; So you might learn that God overlooks some of your sinfulness.

Job 15:13

So that you turn your anger against God and let such words escape your mouth!

Psalm 107:17

Some fell sick from their wicked ways, afflicted because of their sins.

Proverbs 19:3

Their own folly leads people astray; in their hearts they rage against the Lord.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children lie helpless at every street corner like antelopes in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, the rebuke of your God.

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me! I am undone, my wound is beyond healing. Yet I had thought: if I make light of my sickness, I can bear it.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why cry out over your wound? There is no relief for your pain. Because of your great guilt, your numerous sins, I have done this to you.

Lamentations 3:22

The Lord’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent;

Leviticus 26:41

so that I, too, had to be hostile to them and bring them into their enemies’ land. Then, when their uncircumcised hearts are humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:43

The land will be forsaken by them, that in its desolation without them, it may make up its sabbaths, and that they, too, may make good the debt of their guilt for having spurned my decrees and loathed my statutes.

Micah 7:9

I will endure the wrath of the Lord because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and establishes my right. He will bring me forth to the light; I will see his righteousness.

Numbers 11:11

“Why do you treat your servant so badly?” Moses asked the Lord. “Why are you so displeased with me that you burden me with all this people?

Numbers 17:12

Aaron took his censer just as Moses directed and ran in among the assembly, where the plague had already begun among the people. Then he offered the incense and made atonement for the people,

Revelation 16:9

People were burned by the scorching heat and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent or give him glory.