Lamentations 3:17-29

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁷ You deprived my soul of peace. I have forgotten what well-being^[a] is.
¹⁸ I said, “My endurance has vanished, along with my hope from
    the Lord.”
¹⁹ Remember my affliction and my homeless wandering,
    the wormwood and bitterness.
²⁰ My soul always remembers, and it has sunk within me.
²¹ Nevertheless, I keep this in my heart. This is the reason I have hope:
²² By the mercies of the Lord we are not consumed, for his compassions do not fail.
²³ They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
²⁴ My soul says, “The Lord is my portion. Therefore, I will hope in him.”
²⁵ The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
²⁶ It is good to hope quietly for the salvation of the Lord.
²⁷ It is good for a man that he bears a yoke early in his life.
²⁸ Let him sit alone and be silent, because the Lord has laid this upon him.
²⁹ Let him stick his face in the dust. Perhaps there still is hope.