Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord does not cast off for all time.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
In Context
30He gives to his striker the cheek, || He is filled with reproach.
32For though He afflicted, yet He has pitied, || According to the abundance of His kindness.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:22for YHWH does not leave His people, on account of His great Name; for YHWH has been pleased to make you for a people to Him.
1 Kings 11:39and I humble the seed of David for this; only, not [for] all the days.”
Psalms 94:14For YHWH does not leave His people, || And does not forsake His inheritance.
Isaiah 27:8In measure, in sending it forth, you strive with it, || He has taken away by His sharp wind, || In the day of an east wind,
Isaiah 57:16For I do not strive for all time, nor am I angry forever, || For the spirit is feeble before Me, || And the souls I have made.
Jeremiah 32:40and I have made a perpetual covenant for them, in that I do not turn back from after them for My doing them good, and I put My fear in their heart, so as not to turn aside 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 →