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.
Psalm 77:8 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Have His mercy and loving-kindness ceased forever? Have His promises ended for all time? American Standard Version (1901) Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Common English Bible Has his faithful love come to a complete end? Is his promise over for future generations? Catholic Public Domain Version May they not become like their fathers, a perverse and exasperating generation: a generation that does not straighten their heart and whose spirit is not trustworthy with God. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That they may not become like their fathers, a perverse end exasperating generation. A generation that set not their heart aright: and whose spirit was not faithful to God. |
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.
How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart every day? How long shall my enemy triumph over me?
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my alienation.
God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Yisra'el, that are of Yisra'el.
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.