Reformed Confessions & Catechisms

Lamentations

10 verses from the Lamentations cited as proof texts across the confessions and catechisms.

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Lamentations 1:7 (BLB)

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and her wandering all her desirable [things] that were in days before. In the falling of her people into the hand of the enemy, there was no one giving help to her; the adversaries saw her; they have laughed at her destruction.

Lamentations 3:26 (BLB)

And [it is] good to wait and be silent for the salvation of YHWH;

Lamentations 3:27 (BLB)

[it is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.

Lamentations 3:28 (BLB)

Let him sit alone and be silent when it is laid upon him.

Lamentations 3:29 (BLB)

Let him put in the dust his mouth; perhaps there is hope!

Lamentations 3:30 (BLB)

Let him give [his] cheek to the one striking him; let him be filled with reproach!

Lamentations 3:31 (BLB)

For the Lord will not reject [us] forever;

Lamentations 3:32 (BLB)

for though He may bring grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His loving devotion;

Lamentations 3:39 (BLB)

Why should complain a living man, a man for his sins?

Lamentations 3:41 (BLB)

Let us lift our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens: