The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
What does Lamentations 3:25 mean?
Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that they are not worse.
Key themes
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Keep this verse inside Lamentations 3:24-25 and alongside a few nearby related passages.
Commentary on Lamentations 3:25
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.
Context in Lamentations 3
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Lamentations 3 belongs to the middle movement of the book, especially the section often described as the afflicted individual voice. Lamentations gives the church and synagogue one of the most disciplined and devastating vocabularies of grief in all Scripture. Read this chapter with the wider themes of lament, judgment, and sorrow in view so the individual verses keep their proper weight.
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