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Lamentations 3:39
“Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
37
Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn't command it?
38
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
39
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
41
Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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