Lamentations 3:31

Israel's Affliction

³⁰ He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach. ³¹ For the Lord doth not cast off to the age. ³² For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

Lord Will Not Forsake

Lord Will Not Reject

Jehovah

Psalm 94:14

For Jehovah leaveth not His people, And His inheritance forsaketh not.

Psalm 77:7

To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?

Isaiah 54:7-10

In a small moment I have forsaken thee, And in great mercies I do gather thee,

1 Samuel 12:22

for Jehovah doth not leave His people, on account of His great name; for Jehovah hath been pleased to make you to Him for a people.

Psalm 103:8-10

Merciful and gracious is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and abundant in mercy.

Isaiah 57:16

For, not to the age do I strive, nor for ever am I wroth, For the spirit from before Me is feeble, And the souls I have made.

Jeremiah 31:37

Thus said Jehovah: If the heavens above be measured, And the foundations of earth below searched, Even I kick against all the seed of Israel, For all that they have done, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 32:40

and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me;

Jeremiah 33:24

Hast thou not considered what this people have spoken, saying: The two families on which Jehovah fixed, He doth reject them, And my people they despise -- So that they are no more a people before them!

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like Thee? taking away iniquity, And passing by the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance, He hath not retained for ever His anger, Because He -- He delighteth in kindness.

Romans 11:1-6

I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin: