“For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Lamentations 3 contains 66 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.