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Lamentations 3:32-42

32 If he works severely, he also works tenderly. His stockpiles of loyal love are immense.

32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion, so great is his unfailing love.

33 He takes no pleasure in making life hard, in throwing roadblocks in the way:

33 For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to anyone.

34 Stomping down hard on luckless prisoners,

34 To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

35 Refusing justice to victims in the court of High God,

35 to deny people their rights before the Most High,

36 Tampering with evidence - the Master does not approve of such things. God Speaks Both Good Things and Hard Things into Being

36 to deprive them of justice— would not the Lord see such things?

37 Who do you think "spoke and it happened"? It's the Master who gives such orders.

37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

38 Doesn't the High God speak everything, good things and hard things alike, into being?

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

39 And why would anyone gifted with life complain when punished for sin?

39 Why should the living complain when punished for their sins?

40 Let's take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under God.

40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the LORD.

41 Let's lift our hearts and hands at one and the same time, praying to God in heaven:

41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:

42 "We've been contrary and willful, and you haven't forgiven.

42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.