Parallel Verses
Amplified
For the Lord will not reject forever,
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
Holman Bible
כ Kaf
will not reject us forever.
International Standard Version
Indeed, the Lord will not always reject us
A Conservative Version
For LORD will not cast off forever.
American Standard Version
For the Lord will not cast off for ever.
Bible in Basic English
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
Darby Translation
For the Lord will not cast off for ever;
Julia Smith Translation
For Jehovah will not cast of forever:
King James 2000
For the Lord will not cast off forever:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For the Lord will not reject forever.
Modern King James verseion
For the Lord will not cast off forever;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Khaf} For the LORD will not forsake forever.
NET Bible
(Kaf) For the Lord will not reject us forever.
New Heart English Bible
For the Lord will not reject forever.
The Emphasized Bible
Surely My Lord, will not cast off, unto times age-abiding;
Webster
For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
World English Bible
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
Youngs Literal Translation
For the Lord doth not cast off to the age.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
30
Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him;
Let him be filled with reproach.
For the Lord will not reject forever,
For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness and tender mercy.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 94:14
For the Lord will not abandon His people,
Nor will He abandon His inheritance.
Psalm 77:7
Will the Lord reject forever?
And will He never be favorable again?
Isaiah 54:7-10
“For a brief moment I abandoned you,
But with great compassion and mercy I will gather you [to Myself again].
1 Samuel 12:22
The Lord will not abandon His people for His great name’s sake, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.
Psalm 103:8-10
The Lord is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in compassion and lovingkindness.
Isaiah 57:16
“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For [if I did stay angry] the spirit [of man] would grow weak before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have created.
Jeremiah 31:37
Thus says the Lord,
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also cast off and abandon all the descendants of Israel
For all that they have done,” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:40
I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will do them good and not turn away from them; and I will put in their heart a fear and reverential awe of Me, so that they will not turn away from Me.
Jeremiah 33:24
“Have you not noticed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families [Israel the northern kingdom, and Judah the southern kingdom] which the Lord chose, He has rejected’? Thus they despise My [chosen] people, no longer are they [considered] as a nation in their sight.
Micah 7:18
Who is a God like You, who forgives wickedness
And passes over the rebellious acts of the remnant of His possession?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He [constantly] delights in mercy and lovingkindness.
Romans 11:1-6
I say then, has God rejected and disowned His people? Certainly not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.