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 rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days,

and Jacob their father saith unto them, 'Me ye have bereaved; Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and Benjamin ye take -- against me have been all these.'

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes -- to put the burden of all this people upon me?

And Joshua saith, 'Ah, Lord Jehovah, why hast Thou at all caused this people to pass over the Jordan, to give us into the hand of the Amorite to destroy us? -- and oh that we had been willing -- and we dwell beyond the Jordan!

God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

Also -- to-day is my complaint bitter, My hand hath been heavy because of my sighing.

Deep unto deep is calling At the noise of Thy water-spouts, All Thy breakers and Thy billows passed over me.

I am the man who hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

I fainted

My refreshing for me is sorrow, For me my heart is sick.

I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

Because of this, having this ministration, according as we did receive kindness, we do not faint,

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls -- being faint.