WE ARE ALL AS AN UNCLEAN THING, AND ALL OUR RIGHTEOUSNESSES ARE AS FILTHY RACS; AND WE ALL DO FADE AS A LEAF; AND OUR INIQUITIES, LIKE THE WIND, HAVE TAKEN US AWAY. ISAIAH 64-6. THOU, O LORD, ART OUR FATHER; WE ARE THE CLAY, AND THOU OUR POTTER ; AND WE ARE ALL THE WORK OF THY HAND. BE NOT WROTH VERY SORE, O LORD, NEITHER REMEMBER INIQUITY FOR EVER: BEHOLD, SEE, WE BESEECH THEE, WE ARE ALL THY PEOPLE. ISAIAH 64-8. 9. * IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD; IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE? JEREMIAH 8-22. O LORD, CORRECT ME, BUT WITH JUDGMENT; NOT IN THINE ANGER, LEST THOU BRING ME TO NOTHING. JEREMIAH 10-24. HOW WILT THOU DO IN THE SWELLING OF JORDAN? JEREMIAH 12-5. WEEP YE NOT FOR THE DEAD. JEREMIAH 22-10. O EARTH, EARTH, EARTH, HEAR THE WORD OF REFRAIN THY VOICE FROM WEEPING, AND THINE EYES FROM TEARS: FOR THY WORK SHALL BE REWARDED, SAITH THE LORD. JEREMIAH 31-16. THERE IS HOPE IN THINE END. JEREMIAH 31-17. LEAVE THY FATHERLESS CHILDREN, I WILL PRESERVE THEM ALIVE; AND LET THY WIDOWS TRUST IN ME. JEREMIAH 49-11. ASK THE WAY TO ZION WITH THY FACE THITHERWARD. JEREMIAH 50-5.* IT IS OF THE LORD'S MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED, BECAUSE HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT. LAMENTATIONS 3-22. THE LORD IS MY PORTION, SAITH MY SOUL; THEREFORE WILL I HOPE IN HIM. LAMENTATIONS 3-24. THE LORD WILL NOT CAST OFF FOR EVER: THOUGH HE CAUSE GRIEF, YET WILL HE HAVE COMPASSION ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE OF HIS MERCIES: FOR HE DOTH NOT AFFLICT WILLINGLY NOR GRIEVE THE CHILDREN OF MEN. LAMENTATIONS 3-31 to 33. |