These words offer encouragement when you pray to God and it seems as if He ignores your cries. Lamentations 3:22-26 is a great group of verses to memorize. Jeremiah wrote Lamentations. He went through difficult times living a life as a prophet of God. Bible scholars have called him the weeping prophet. He had to tell God’s people that judgment was coming upon them. A message no one would welcome.
Lamentations 3:17-26 (New International Version)
17 I have been deprived of peace;
I have forgotten what prosperity is.
18 So I say, “My splendor is gone
and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”
19 I remember my affliction and my wandering,
the bitterness and the gall.
20 I well remember them,
and my soul is downcast within me.
21 Yet this I call to mind
and therefore I have hope:
22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him.”
25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;
26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.
New International Version (NIV)
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The full passage of Lamentations 3 (contains 66 verses) is worth reading through to better understand the setting.