…I have hope – because God is good. He will not let me down. I am a brand new creation in Christ!
Excerpt… Lamentations 3:verses 20-26 Amplified Bible (AMP)
20 My soul continually … is bowed down within me.
21 But this I call to mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22 It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,
Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.
24 “The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul;
“Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”
25 The Lord is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him,
To those who seek Him [on the authority of God’s word].
26 It is good that one waits quietly
Lamentations 3:17-41 Amplified Bible (AMP)
My soul has been cast far away from peace;
I have forgotten happiness.
18
So I say, “My strength has perished
And so has my hope and expectation from the Lord.”
Hope of Relief in God’s Mercy
19
Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).
20
My soul continually remembers them
And is bowed down within me.
21
But this I call to mind,
Therefore I have hope.
22
It is because of the Lord’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed,
Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
23
They are new every morning;
Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness.
24
“The Lord is my portion and my inheritance,” says my soul;
“Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him.”
25
The Lord is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him,
To those who seek Him [on the authority of God’s word].
26
It is good that one waits quietly
For the salvation of the Lord.
27
It is good for a man that he should bear
The yoke [of godly discipline] in his youth.
28
Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet,
Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit].
29
Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness];
There may yet be hope.
30
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him;
Let him be filled with reproach.
31
For the Lord will not reject forever,
32
For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness and tender mercy.
33
For He does not afflict willingly and from His heart
Or grieve the children of men.
34
To trample and crush under His feet
All the prisoners of the land,
35
To deprive a man of justice
In the presence of the Most High,
36
To defraud a man in his lawsuit—
The Lord does not approve of these things.
37
Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass,
Unless the Lord has authorized and commanded it?
38
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
39
Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?
40
Let us test and examine our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.
41
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [in prayer]
Toward God in heaven;
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