Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not forsake for euer.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
In Context
30Hee giueth his cheeke to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproches.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:22For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great Names sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
1 Kings 11:39And I will for this afflict the seede of Dauid, but not for euer.
Psalms 94:14Surely the Lord will not faile his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Isaiah 27:8In measure in the branches thereof wilt thou contende with it, when he bloweth with his rough winde in the day of the East winde.
Isaiah 57:16For I will not contende for euer, neither will I be alwayes wroth, for the spirite should fayle before me: and I haue made the breath.
Jeremiah 32:40And I wil make an euerlasting couenant with them, that I wil neuer turne away from them to doe them good, but I wil put my feare in their hearts, that they shall 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 →