Lamentations 3:31 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:31

For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

KJV

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ASV

For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

WEB

For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

YLT

For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.

DBT

For the Lord will not cast off for ever;

About this book

Old Testament

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Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Cross-references

21 verses on the floor

Psalms 94:14
For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Psalms 103:8–10
The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
Psalms 77:7
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Isaiah 54:7–10
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Therefore the sufferer is thus penitent, thus patient, because he believes that God is gracious and merciful, which is the great inducement both to evangelical repentance and to Christian patience.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H218620× in canon

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The walk8

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

LAM 3:31PSA 94:14 ROM 11:1-2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:31ISA 57:16 PSA 85:5
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
LAM 3:31PSA 94:14 1SA 12:22
LAM 3:31PSA 94:14 PSA 37:28
LAM 3:31ISA 57:16 MIC 7:18
LAM 3:31ISA 57:16 JER 10:24
LAM 3:31PSA 94:14 DEU 32:9
LAM 3:31PSA 94:14 ROM 8:30

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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