15 O Lord God of Israel, (A)You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. (B)Here we are before You, (C)in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

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33 However (A)You are just in all that has befallen us;
For You have dealt faithfully,
But (B)we have done wickedly.

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Jeremiah’s Question

12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

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18 “The Lord is (A)righteous,
For I (B)rebelled against His [a]commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:18 Lit. mouth

O Lord, (A)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

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14 Therefore the Lord has (A)kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for (B)the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.

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