The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.
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TSK · Lamentations 3:31
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I will humiliate David’s descendants because of this, but not forever.”
Certainly the LORD does not forsake his people; he does not abandon the nation that belongs to him.
When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
For I will not be hostile forever or perpetually angry, for then man’s spirit would grow faint before me, the life-giving breath I created.
I will make a lasting covenant with them that I will never stop doing good to them. I will fill their hearts and minds with respect for me so that they will never again turn away from me.
Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love?