Lamentations 3:19–33

¹⁹Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall. ²⁰My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

²¹—This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope. ²²It is of Jehovah’s loving-kindness 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 one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah. ²⁷It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth: ²⁸He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence, because he hath laid it upon him; ²⁹he putteth his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope; ³⁰he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him; he is filled full with reproach. ³¹For the Lord will not cast off for ever; ³²but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses: ³³for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.