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Lamentations 3:27-35 English Revised Version (ERV)

27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28. Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him.

29. Let him put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may he hope.

30. Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

31. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

32. For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33. For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

34. To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

35. To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

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