For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
Lamentations 3:31 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For the Lord will not cast off forever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.
For the LORD won't reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
In measure, when you send them away, you contend with them. He has removed them with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
For I will not contend forever, neither will I be always angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls who I have made.
Thus says the LORD: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Yisra'el for all that they have done, says the LORD.
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Don't you consider what this people has spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD did choose, he has cast them off? thus do they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, and passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, because he delights in loving kindness.
Thus says the LORD: *Though they be in full strength, and likewise many, even so they will be cut down, and he shall pass away. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people to himself.