Lamentations 3:31

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Lamentations 3:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible

29 Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.

30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

31 For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

32 Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

33 For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

1 Samuel 12:22

Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.

Psalms 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

Psalms 94:14

For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.

Psalms 103:8

The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.

Psalms 103:9

He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever.

Psalms 103:10

He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.

Isaiah 54:7

“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.

Isaiah 54:8

In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.

Isaiah 54:9

“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

Isaiah 54:10

Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.

Jeremiah 31:37

This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put My fear in their hearts, so that they will never turn away from Me.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?

Romans 11:1

I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

Romans 11:2

God did not reject His people, whom He foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says about Elijah, how he appealed to God against Israel:

Romans 11:3

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well”?

Romans 11:4

And what was the divine reply to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

Romans 11:5

In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.

Romans 11:6

And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.