Lamentations 3:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Remember also thy Creators in days of thy youth, While that the evil days come not, Nor the years have arrived, that thou sayest, `I have no pleasure in them.'
  • Matt 11:29-30 : 29 take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls, 30 for my yoke `is' easy, and my burden is light.'
  • Heb 12:5-9 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, 6 for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' 7 if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? 8 and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. 9 Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising `us', and we were reverencing `them'; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? 10 for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; 11 and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it -- it doth yield. 12 Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;
  • Ps 90:12 : 12 To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.
  • Ps 94:12 : 12 O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him,
  • Ps 119:71 : 71 Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

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