Lamentations 3:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.

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  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by him: 6 For whom the Lord loves he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives." 7 If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? 8 But if you are without chastisement, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we respected them: shall we not much more be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but he for our benefit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful: nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees,
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom you chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of your law;
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.

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    25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

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    28He sits alone and keeps silent, because He has laid it on him.

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  • Eccl 11:8-10
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    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

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    10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh, for childhood and youth are vanity.

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    25Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a good word makes it glad.

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    10I have seen the task which God has given to the sons of men to be occupied with.

  • Lam 3:1
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    1I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

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    71It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes.

  • Eccl 3:12-13
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    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives.

    13And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labor, it is the gift of God.

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    7Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.

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    30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall,

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    17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:

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    14In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also has set the one against the other, so that man should find nothing after him.

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    1Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days do not come, nor the years draw near when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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    2It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for that is the end of all men, and the living will take it to heart.

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    29The glory of young men is their strength, and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

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    30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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    26I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man to remain as he is.

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