Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Lamentations 3:25-35 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

25. Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26. Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

27. Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

28. Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

29. Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

30. Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh him, he shall be filled with reproaches.

31. Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

32. Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

33. Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast off the children of men.

34. Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

35. Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before the face of the most High,