For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
For the Lord will not cast us off forever.
For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.
For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
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Therefore the sufferer is thus penitent, thus patient, because he believes that God is gracious and merciful, which is the great inducement both to evangelical repentance and to Christian patience.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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The verses this one reaches12
For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Jehovah is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness.
Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.
For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.
For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
But my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, Nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
And Samson called unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
A bruised reed shall he not break, And smoking flax shall he not quench, Till he send forth judgment unto victory.
Thus saith Jehovah: If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, then will I also cast off all the seed of Israel for all that they have done, saith Jehovah.
9 more places the canon echoes this verse are mapped by book below ↓
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Psalms 94:14For Jehovah will not cast off his people, Neither will he forsake his inheritance.
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I say then, Did God cast off his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
For Jehovah will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it hath pleased Jehovah to make you a people unto himself.
For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
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Isaiah 57:16For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.
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Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in lovingkindness.
O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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