Lamentations 3:31
For LORD will not cast off forever.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
In Context
30Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:22For LORD will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased LORD to make you a people to himself.
1 Kings 11:39And for this I will afflict the seed of David, but not forever.
Psalms 94:14For LORD will not cast off his people, nor will he forsake his inheritance.
Isaiah 27:8In measure, in sending it forth, thou content with it. He has removed with his rough blast in the day of the east wind.
Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend forever, nor will I always be angry, for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
Jeremiah 32:40And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good. And I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:22-37
Words of Comfort to Israel; The Benefit of Afflictions; Comfort to the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. 22 It is of the Lord 's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24 The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the… Read the whole commentary →