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Lamentations 3:25

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ט (Tet)

3:25The Lord is good to those who trust58 in him,

to the one59 who seeks him.

Read in Logos
Lamentations 3:25–26: The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Footnotes

  1. 58 Heb “wait for him”
  2. 59 Heb “to the soul …” The term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh, “soul”) is a synecdoche of part (= “the soul who seeks him”) for the whole person (= “the person who seeks him”).

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The Lord is good to those who wait for him,

to the soul who seeks him.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him,

to the one who seeks him;

CSBChristian Standard Bible

The Lord is good to those who wait for him,

to the person who seeks him.

NLTNew Living Translation

The Lord is good to those who depend on him,

to those who search for him.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yahweh is good to those who wait on him,

to the person that seeks him.

KJV 1900King James Version

The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.