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Lamentations 3:31-62
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For no one is cast off by the Lord forever.
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Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.
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For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.
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To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,
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to deny people their rights before the Most High,
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to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?
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Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?
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Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?
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Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?
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Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.
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Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
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“We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
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“You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
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You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
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You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
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“All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
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We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
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Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
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My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
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until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
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Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
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They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
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the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.
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I called on your name, LORD, from the depths of the pit.
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You heard my plea: “Do not close your ears to my cry for relief.”
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You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”
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You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.
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LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!
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You have seen the depth of their vengeance, all their plots against me.
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LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
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what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.
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Job 37:23 ; SJeremiah 31:20 ;Ezekiel 18:23 ;Ezekiel 33:11 -
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Psalms 140:12 ; SProverbs 17:15 ; SJeremiah 22:3 ;Habakkuk 1:13 -
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Ezekiel 36:3
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