Lamentations 3:26
King James Version (KJV)
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV)
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
World English Bible (WEB)
It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
Lamentations 3:26 Cross References
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;