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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Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

Their father Jacob said to them: You are going to make me lose all my children! Joseph is no longer with us. Simeon is no longer with us. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is against me!

So he asked: Jehovah, why have you brought me this trouble? How have I displeased you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

Joshua said: Alas, Sovereign Lord Jehovah, why did you bring this people across the Jordan. Was it to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan!

God hands me over to ruffians. He tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

Even today my complaint is bitter rebellion. God's hand is heavy despite my groaning.

One deep sea calls to another at the roar of your waterspouts. All the whitecaps on your waves have swept over me.

I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his fury.

I fainted

My sorrow is beyond healing, my heart is faint within me!

I believe that I will see the goodness of Jehovah in this world of the living.

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

He sends fire into my bones from on high. It overcomes them. His net is stretched out for my feet. He turns me back. He made me waste and feeble all the day.

We have this ministry to do, even as we obtained mercy, we do not lose heart.

Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

Brothers, do not grow weary of doing good.

Consider him who endured such contrary talk by sinners against him. You should not get tired and give up in your mind (heart).