World English Bible
Lamentations 3:27
“It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
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Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.
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It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
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Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
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Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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