Lamentations 3:26
Good News Translation
So it is best for us to wait in patience--to wait for him to save us--

New Revised Standard Version
It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

Contemporary English Version
It is good to wait patiently for the LORD to save us.

New American Bible
It is good to hope in silence for the LORD’s deliverance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.

good

Psalm 52:9 I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.

Psalm 54:6 I will freely sacrifice to thee, and will give praise, O God, to thy name: because it is good:

Psalm 73:28 But it is good for me to adhere to my God, to put my hope in the Lord God: That I may declare all thy praises, in the gates of the daughter of Sion.

Psalm 92:1 A psalm of a canticle on the sabbath day. [2] It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.

Galatians 4:18 But be zealous for that which is good in a good thing always: and not only when I am present with you.

hope

Hebrews 3:14 For we are made partakers of Christ: yet so, if we hold the beginning of his substance firm unto the end.

Hebrews 10:35 Do not therefore lose your confidence which hath a great reward.

1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

quietly

Genesis 49:18 I will look for thy salvation, O Lord.

Exodus 14:13 And Moses said to the people: Fear not: stand, and see the great wonders of the Lord, which he will do this day; for the Egyptians, whom you see now, you shall see no more for ever.

2 Chronicles 20:17 It shall not be you that shall fight, but only stand with confidence, and you shall see the help of the Lord over you, O Juda, and Jerusalem: fear ye not, nor be you dismayed: to morrow you shall go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.

Psalm 37:7,34 Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things. . . .

Psalm 119:166,174 I looked for thy salvation, O Lord: and I loved thy commandments. . . .

Psalm 130:5 my soul hath hoped in the Lord.

Isaiah 30:7,15 For Egypt shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this: It is pride only, sit still. . . .

Context
Jeremiah's Hope
25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.27Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.…
Cross References
Psalm 37:7
Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.

Isaiah 7:4
And thou shalt say to him: See thou be quiet: fear not, and let not thy heart be afraid of the two tails of these firebrands, smoking with the wrath of the fury of Rasin king of Syria, and of the son of Romelia.

Jeremiah 14:22
Are there any among the graven things of the Gentiles that can send rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou the Lord our God, whom we have looked for? for thou hast made all these things.

Lamentations 3:27
Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the yoke from his youth.

Lamentations 3:25
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