OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 39

Lamentations 3:39

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Why should a living man complain,

a man for the punishment of his sins?

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Lamentations 3:36–42

36

to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.

37

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,

when the Lord doesn’t command it?

38

Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

39
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Why should a living man complain,

a man for the punishment of his sins?

40

Let us search and try our ways,

and turn again to the LORD.

41

Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

42

“We have transgressed and have rebelled.

You have not pardoned.

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