Lamentations 3:39

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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  • Mic 7:9 : 9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
  • Prov 19:3 : 3 The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart frets against the LORD.
  • Isa 38:17-19 : 17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but in love for my soul, You have delivered it from the pit of corruption: for You have cast all my sins behind Your back. 18 For Sheol cannot praise You, death cannot celebrate You: those who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth. 19 The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day: the father shall make known Your truth to the children.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
  • Jer 30:15 : 15 Why do you cry over your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable because of the multitude of your iniquity: because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
  • Lam 3:22 : 22 It is because of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.
  • Jonah 2:3-4 : 3 For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas; and the floods surrounded me, all Your waves and billows passed over me. 4 Then I said, I am cast out of Your sight; yet I will look again toward Your holy temple.
  • Jonah 4:8-9 : 8 And it happened, when the sun arose, that God prepared a scorching east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, so that he fainted and wished to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live. 9 And God said to Jonah, Do you do well to be angry for the plant? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
  • 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,
  • Rev 16:9 : 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent to give Him glory.
  • Gen 4:5-7 : 5 But for Cain and his offering he did not have respect. And Cain was very angry, and his countenance fell. 6 And the LORD said to Cain, Why are you angry? and why has your countenance fallen? 7 If you do well, shall you not be accepted? and if you do not do well, sin lies at the door. And unto you shall be his desire, and you shall rule over him.
  • Gen 4:13-14 : 13 And Cain said to the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. 14 Behold, you have driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from your face shall I be hidden; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth; and it shall come to pass, that anyone who finds me shall slay me.
  • Lev 26:41 : 41 And that I also have walked contrary to them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity:
  • Lev 26:43 : 43 The land also shall be left by them, and shall enjoy its Sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they shall accept the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
  • Num 11:11 : 11 And Moses said to the LORD, Why have You afflicted Your servant? and why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You lay the burden of all this people upon me?
  • Num 16:41 : 41 But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, You have killed the people of the LORD.
  • Num 17:12 : 12 And the children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, Behold, we perish, we are undone, we are all undone.
  • Josh 7:6-9 : 6 And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name? 10 And the LORD said to Joshua, Get up; why are you lying thus upon your face? 11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and deceived also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you anymore, except you destroy the accursed from among you. 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel: you cannot stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.
  • 2 Sam 6:7-8 : 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error, and there he died by the ark of God. 8 And David was displeased because the LORD had made a breach upon Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 And Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father and to the prophets of your mother." And the king of Israel said to him, "No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."
  • 2 Kgs 6:32 : 32 But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man ahead of him: but before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?
  • Ezra 9:13 : 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great trespass, seeing that You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve and have given us such deliverance as this;
  • Job 11:6 : 6 And that He would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double what is! Know therefore that God exacts from you less than your iniquity deserves.

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