Lamentations 3:32

Amplified Bible

For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness and tender mercy.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Even if he causes suffering,he will show compassionaccording to the abundance of his faithful love.

Hebrew Names Version
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

King James Version
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

English Standard Version
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

New American Standard Bible
For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion In proportion to His abundant mercy.

New Century Version
Although he brings sorrow, he also has mercy and great love.

World English Bible
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But though he sende affliction, yet will he haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion According to His abundant lovingkindness.

Legacy Standard Bible
For if He causes grief,Then He will have compassionAccording to His abundant lovingkindness.

Berean Standard Bible
Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Contemporary English Version
He causes a lot of suffering, but he also has pity because of his great love.

Complete Jewish Bible
He may cause grief, but he will take pity, in keeping with the greatness of his grace.

Darby Translation
but if he have caused grief, he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses:

Easy-to-Read Version
When he punishes, he also has mercy. He has mercy because of his great love and kindness.

George Lamsa Translation
But though he cause affliction, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Good News Translation
He may bring us sorrow, but his love for us is sure and strong.

Lexham English Bible
For even though he causes grief he has compassion according to the greatness of his royal love.

Literal Translation
For though He causes grief, He will have pity according to His many kindnesses.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But though he do cast of, yet (acordinge to ye multitude of his mercies) he receaueth to grace agayne.

American Standard Version
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Bible in Basic English
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.

King James Version (1611)
But though hee cause griefe, yet will hee haue compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But though he punishe, yet according to the multitude of his mercies he receaueth to grace agayne.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
CHAPH. For he that has brought down will pity, and that according to the abundance of his mercy.

English Revised Version
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Caph. For if he castide awei, and he schal do merci bi the multitude of hise mercies.

Update Bible Version
For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses.

Webster's Bible Translation
But though he causeth grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

New English Translation
Though he causes us grief, he then has compassion on us according to the abundance of his loyal kindness.

New King James Version
Though He causes grief, Yet He will show compassion According to the multitude of His mercies.

New Living Translation
Though he brings grief, he also shows compassion because of the greatness of his unfailing love.

New Life Bible
For if He causes sorrow, He will have loving-pity because of His great loving-kindness.

New Revised Standard
Although he causes grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.

Revised Standard Version
but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love;

Young's Literal Translation
For though He afflicted, yet He hath pitied, According to the abundance of His kindness.

Contextual Overview

²¹But this I call to mind, Therefore I have hope. ²²It is because of the LORD'S lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, Because His [tender] compassions never fail. ²³They are new every morning; Great and beyond measure is Your faithfulness. ²⁴"The LORD is my portion and my inheritance," says my soul; "Therefore I have hope in Him and wait expectantly for Him." ²⁵The LORD is good to those who wait [confidently] for Him, To those who seek Him [on the authority of God's word]. ²⁶It is good that one waits quietly For the salvation of the LORD. ²⁷It is good for a man that he should bear The yoke [of godly discipline] in his youth. ²⁸Let him sit alone [in hope] and keep quiet, Because God has laid it on him [for his benefit]. ²⁹Let him put his mouth in the dust [in recognition of his unworthiness]; There may yet be hope. ³⁰Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him; Let him be filled with reproach.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 3:22, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 3:7, Judges 10:16, 2 Kings 13:23, Psalms 30:5, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 103:11, Psalms 106:43-45, Jeremiah 31:20, Hosea 11:8, Luke 15:20

Reciprocal: Numbers 12:15 - till Miriam Deuteronomy 13:17 - and show Deuteronomy 30:2 - return unto Deuteronomy 30:3 - then the Judges 16:28 - called Judges 20:47 - six hundred 1 Samuel 12:22 - the Lord 2 Samuel 12:13 - The Lord 2 Samuel 24:25 - So the Lord 1 Kings 11:39 - not for ever 1 Chronicles 21:13 - great Job 33:23 - to Job 37:23 - he will Psalms 44:9 - General Psalms 51:1 - multitude Psalms 60:1 - O turn Psalms 77:7 - the Lord Psalms 89:33 - Nevertheless Psalms 106:7 - multitude Psalms 106:45 - to the Isaiah 63:7 - according to his Jeremiah 45:3 - added Hosea 6:1 - he hath torn Micah 7:18 - he retaineth Micah 7:19 - turn Habakkuk 3:2 - in wrath Matthew 15:28 - Jesus Luke 7:13 - he 2 Corinthians 7:8 - though I made 1 Peter 1:6 - if

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But though he cause grief,.... As he sometimes does in his own people; by convincing them of sin, and producing in them godly sorrow, which worketh repentance unto life, not to be repented of; by correcting and chastising them for it, and by hiding his face from them; all which are grievous to them:

yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies; his mercies are many, both temporal and spiritual, and his compassion is answerable; which he shows to his people by an application of pardoning grace, through the blood of Christ, by sympathizing with them under their afflictions, and delivering from them; by granting them his gracious presence, and restoring to them the joys of his salvation; all which is not according to their merits, but his mercies.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Reasons for the resignation urged in the previous triplet.