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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.

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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).
 
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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.