Lamentations 3:25
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
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Study Note
'The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him' — this verse stands at the theological center of Lamentations, surrounded by the devastation of Jerusalem's destruction, as the affirmation around which the entire book pivots. Verses 22–26, with their confession of new covenant mercies every morning and the call to wait quietly for God's salvation, are structurally placed at the midpoint of the acrostic composition, signaling that hope — not despair — is the poem's theological core. The 'soul that seeketh him' (the same Hebrew root as the Psalms' 'seek the Lord') preserves the active, relational dimension of faith even in the depths of catastrophic suffering.
ترجمات أخرى
Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul <FI>that<Fi> seeketh Him.
The Lord is good to those who are waiting for him, to the soul which is looking for him.
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