Friday, August 5, 2011

Lamentations...


And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace:
        
I forgat prosperity.
And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
This I recall to my mind,
        
therefore have I hope.

 
It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed,
        
because his compassions fail not.
They are new every morning:
        
great is thy faithfulness.

 
The LORD is my portion, saith my soul;
        
therefore will I hope in him.
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him,
        
to the soul that seeketh him.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

 
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
He sitteth alone and keepeth silence,
        
because he hath borne it upon him.

 
He putteth his mouth in the dust;
        
if so be there may be hope.
He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him:
        
he is filled full with reproach.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
        
according to the multitude of his mercies.