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Lamentations 3:27 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 27
It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.Lamentations 3:27 · King James Version
Lamentations 3:27 in context
25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
27It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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- goodṭôwbgood in the widest senseH2896 →
- bearnâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- yokeʻôla yoke , literally or figurativelyH5923 →
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Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-36