“You came near in the day that I called on you. You said, “Don’t be afraid.””

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.