And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Do not give up doing good. The harvest comes in its time.
Lamentations 3:25-26
Lamentations 3:25-26
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Written in a book of grief: the Lord is good to those who wait for Him, and quiet hope is good.
KJVLamentations 3:25-26 in context
22It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. 24The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. 29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
Five poems of grief written over a destroyed Jerusalem, with hope at their center.
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Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Be still before the Lord and wait for Him; do not eat yourself up over people who seem to get ahead by doing wrong.
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;
Three habits for a hard stretch: rejoice in hope, be patient in trouble, keep praying.
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
A promise for the worn out: those who wait on the Lord receive new strength, to run, and to keep walking without fainting.