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## Lamentations 3:39-40 in Context (Verses 36–43 KJV)
 
 [36 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/36) To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.*
 
 [37 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/37) ¶ Who *is* he *that* saith, and it cometh to pass, *when* the Lord commandeth *it* not?
 
 [38 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/38) Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
 
 [39 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/39) Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?*
 
 [40 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/40) Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
 
 [41 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/41) Let us lift up our heart with *our* hands unto God in the heavens.
 
 [42 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/42) We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
 
 [43 ](/kjv/lamentations/3/43) Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
 
[Lamentations 2](/kjv/lamentations/2) [Lamentations 4](/kjv/lamentations/4)

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