Lamentations 3:31

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“For the Lord will not cast us off forever.”

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“For the Lord will not cast us off forever.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“For the Lord will not cast off for ever:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For the Lord will not cast off for ever.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:31 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.
  2. 2 Samuel 14:14For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.
  3. 1 Kings 11:39Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
  4. Psalms 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
  5. Psalms 94:14For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
  6. Psalms 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
  7. Isaiah 27:8By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.
  8. Isaiah 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
  9. Isaiah 57:16For 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.
  10. Jeremiah 31:37This 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.
  11. Jeremiah 32:40I 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Micah 7:18Who 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?
  14. Romans 11:1I ask then, did God reject His people? Certainly not! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.

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