Lamentations 3:31
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For the Lord will not cast us off forever.”
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BSBPD
“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 DomainASVPD
“For the Lord will not cast off for ever.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:31 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 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 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.
- 1 Kings 11:39Because of this, I will humble David’s descendants—but not forever.’”
- Psalms 77:7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
- Psalms 94:14For the LORD will not forsake His people; He will never abandon His heritage.
- Psalms 103:8The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion.
- 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.
- Isaiah 54:7“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 7:18Who 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?
- 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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