Lamentations 3:31
Yahweh does not abandon us his people forever.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
In Context
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:22Yahweh decided to make us his people. So he will not abandon us people whom he has chosen, because he would injure his own reputation of being completely faithful if he did that.
1 Kings 11:39Because of Solomon’s sins, I will punish David’s descendants, but I will not continue to punish them forever.’”
Psalms 94:14Yahweh will not abandon his people; he will not desert like that those who belong to him [DOU].
Isaiah 27:8No, he has not done that, but he punished us Israeli people and ◄exiled us/forced us to leave our country►; we were taken away from our land as though [SIM] we were struck by a windstorm from the east.
Isaiah 57:16I will not accuse people forever; I will not always be angry with them, because if I did that, people would become weak/discouraged; all the people whom I created and caused to live would die.
Jeremiah 32:40I will make an agreement with them that will last forever: I will never stop doing good things for them, and I will encourage them to revere me and never turn away 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 →