Lamentations 3:19–33

¹⁹Remember mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me. ²¹This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope. ²²It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. ²³They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. ²⁴Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. ²⁵Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. ²⁶It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. ²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. ²⁸Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. ²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. ³⁰Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. ³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever. ³²For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. ³³For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.