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Lamentations 3:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. "
Lamentations 3:27
Verse in Context
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25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it on him.
29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so that there may be hope.
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Lamentations 3:1
"I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
Lamentations 3:2
"He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light."
Lamentations 3:3
"Surely he turns his hand against me again and again all day long."
Lamentations 3:4
"He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones."
Lamentations 3:5
"He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship."
Lamentations 3:6
"He has made me dwell in dark places, as those who have been long dead."
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