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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:25 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
La 3:25 |
King James |
The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The repetition of "good" at the beginning of each of the three verses heightens the effect.
wait-- (Isa 30:18). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
In these three verses, each beginning in the Hebrew with the word good, we have first the fundamental idea that Yahweh Himself is good, and if good to all, then especially is He so to those who being in adversity can yet wait in confidence upon His mercy.
Lam 3:26
And quietly wait - literally, "and be in silence," i. e. abstain from all complaining.
Lam 3:27
The yoke - Or, a "yoke." By bearing a yoke in his youth, i. e. being called upon to suffer in early age, a man learns betimes the lesson of silent endurance, and so finds it more easy to be calm and patient in later years. |
18 And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.