Viewing verse 18-33 of Lamentations 3 (with context)
Read Full Chapter He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.*
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.*
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.*
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.*
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.*
This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.*
¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.*
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,*
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.*