Lamentations 3:26

It is good to hope and quietly wait for the LORD's salvation. It commends patient, trusting hope as the right response to suffering.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 37:7Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
• Ps 37:34Wait for Yahweh, and keep his way, and he will exalt you to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, you shall see it.
• Ps 130:5I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
• Heb 10:35Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• Gen 49:18I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Isa 30:15For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Ps 119:166I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.
• 2 Chr 20:17You will not need to fight this battle. Set yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh with you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Go out against them tomorrow, for Yahweh is with you.’”
• Ps 119:174I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.
• Ps 52:9I will give you thanks forever, because you have done it. I will hope in your name, for it is good, in the presence of your saints.
• Ps 54:6With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.
• Ps 73:28But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
• Isa 30:7For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.
• Gal 4:18But it is always good to be zealous in a good cause, and not only when I am present with you.
• Ps 92:1A Psalm. A song for the Sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks to Yahweh, to sing praises to your name, Most High;
• Exod 14:13Moses said to the people, “Don’t be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

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