Lamentations 3:27

3:27 It is good for a man

to bear the yoke while he is young.

Lamentations 3:39

3:39 Why should any living person complain

when punished for his sins?

Lamentations 3:35-36

3:35 to deprive a person of his rights

in the presence of the Most High,

3:36 to defraud a person in a lawsuit –

the Lord does not approve of such things!

Lamentations 3:1

The Prophet Speaks:

א (Alef)

3:1 I am the man who has experienced affliction

from the rod of his wrath.

Lamentations 3:31

כ (Kaf)

3:31 For the Lord will not

reject us forever.

Lamentations 4:4

ד (Dalet)

4:4 The infant’s tongue sticks

to the roof of its mouth due to thirst;

little children beg for bread,

but no one gives them even a morsel.

Lamentations 2:12

ל (Lamed)

2:12 Children say to their mothers,

“Where are food and drink?”

They faint like a wounded warrior

in the city squares.

They die slowly

in their mothers’ arms.

Lamentations 3:26

3:26 It is good to wait patiently

for deliverance from the Lord.