Lamentations 3:39 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

³⁹ Why should any who draw breath complain about the punishment of their sins?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ Wherefore doth a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ Why does a living man sigh [one who is still in this life's school of discipline]? [And why does] a man complain for the punishment of his sins?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Common English Bible

³⁹ Why then does any living person complain; why should anyone complain about their sins?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?

Lamentations 3:39 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 3:13

Elisha said to the king of Israel, “What have I to do with you? Go to your father's prophets or to your mother's.” But the king of Israel said to him, “No; it is the Lord who has summoned us, three kings, only to be handed over to Moab.”

2 Kings 6:32

So he dispatched a man from his presence. Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Are you aware that this murderer has sent someone to take off my head? When the messenger comes, see that you shut the door and hold it closed against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?”

2 Kings 6:33

While he was still speaking with them, the king came down to him and said, “This trouble is from the Lord! Why should I hope in the Lord any longer?”

Ezra 9:13

After all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,

Job 11:6

and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For wisdom is many-sided. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.

Job 15:13

so that you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

Psalm 107:17

Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities endured affliction;

Proverbs 19:3

One's own folly leads to ruin, yet the heart rages against the Lord.

Isaiah 51:20

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

Jeremiah 10:19

Woe is me because of my hurt! My wound is severe. But I said, “Truly this is my punishment, and I must bear it.”

Jeremiah 30:15

Why do you cry out over your hurt? Your pain is incurable. Because your guilt is great, because your sins are so numerous, I have done these things to you.

Lamentations 3:22

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

Leviticus 26:41

so that I, in turn, continued hostile to them and brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity,

Leviticus 26:43

For the land shall be deserted by them, and enjoy its sabbath years by lying desolate without them, while they shall make amends for their iniquity, because they dared to spurn my ordinances, and they abhorred my statutes.

Micah 7:9

I must bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he takes my side and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall see his vindication.

Numbers 11:11

So Moses said to the Lord, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me?

Numbers 16:41

On the next day, however, the whole congregation of the Israelites rebelled against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed the people of the Lord.”

Numbers 17:12

The Israelites said to Moses, “We are perishing; we are lost, all of us are lost!

Revelation 16:9

they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.