Jeremiah 45:3

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Jeremiah 45:3

Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

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I fainted

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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.

And Jacob their father said unto them, "Me have ye robbed of my children: Joseph is away, and Simeon is away, and ye will take Benjamin away. All these things fall upon me."

And Moses said unto the LORD, "Wherefore dealest thou so cruelly with thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour in thy sight, seeing that thou puttest the weight of this people upon me?

And Joshua said, "Ah, Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou brought this people over Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had adventured and dwelt on the other side Jordan.

God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.

"My saying is yet this day in bitterness, and my hand heavy among my groanings.

One deep calleth another with the voice of thy water-pipes, all thy waves and water floods are gone over me.

{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery.

I fainted

Sorrow is come upon me, and heaviness vexeth my heart:

I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

{Mem} From above hath he sent down a fire into my bones: and it burned them cruelly. He hath laid a net for my feet, and thrown me wide open: he hath made me desolate, so that I must ever be mourning.

Therefore seeing that we have such an office, even as mercy is come on us, we faint not:

Let us not be weary of well doing. For when the time is come we shall reap without weariness.

Brethren, be not weary in well doing.

Consider therefore how that he endured such speaking against him of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds.