Lamentations
10 verses from the Lamentations cited as proof texts across the confessions and catechisms.
Open in the interactive reader →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.
And [it is] good to wait and be silent for the salvation of YHWH;
[it is] good for a man that he should bear the yoke in his youth.
Let him sit alone and be silent when it is laid upon him.
Let him put in the dust his mouth; perhaps there is hope!
Let him give [his] cheek to the one striking him; let him be filled with reproach!
For the Lord will not reject [us] forever;
for though He may bring grief, He will show compassion according to the abundance of His loving devotion;
Why should complain a living man, a man for his sins?
Let us lift our heart with [our] hands to God in the heavens: