Lamentations 3:31

Israel's Affliction

³⁰ Let him offer his cheek
to the one who would strike him;
let him be filled with shame. ³¹ כ KafFor the Lord
will not reject us forever.
³² Even if He causes suffering,
He will show compassion
according to His abundant, faithful love.

Lord Will Not Forsake

Lord Will Not Reject

Jehovah

Psalm 94:14

The Lord will not forsake His people
or abandon His heritage,

Psalm 77:7

“Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?

Isaiah 54:7-10

“I deserted you for a brief moment,
but I will take you back with great compassion.

1 Samuel 12:22

The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people.

Psalm 103:8-10

The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love.

Isaiah 57:16

For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.

Jeremiah 31:37

This is what the Lord says:

If the heavens above can be measured
and the foundations of the earth below explored,
I will reject all of Israel’s descendants
because of all they have done—
this is the Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 32:40

“I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never turn away from doing good to them, and I will put fear of Me in their hearts so they will never again turn away from Me.

Jeremiah 33:24

“Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen.’ My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.

Micah 7:18

Who is a God like You,
removing iniquity and passing over rebellion
for the remnant of His inheritance?
He does not hold on to His anger forever,
because He delights in faithful love.

Romans 11:1-6

I ask, then, has God rejected His people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.