Lamentations 3:23

²³let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

⁵For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

²LORD, be gracious to us. We have waited for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

⁵Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

³³But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

⁵The LORD, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.

⁶The LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, “The LORD! The LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth,

⁶who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

¹⁸that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

²in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;