Lamentations 3:27 Cross References - TKJU

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.

¹² Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O LORD, and teach him out of Your law;

⁷¹ It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Your statutes.

¹ Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days have not come, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, "I have no pleasure in them;

²⁹ Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: And you shall find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light."

⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to children, "My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him: ⁶ For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives." ⁷ If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father does not chasten? ⁸ But if you are without chastisement, of which all are partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: Should we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed chastened us for a few days according to their own pleasure; but He for our profit, that we might be partakers of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no chastening seems to be joyous in the present, but grievous: Nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those which are exercised by it. ¹² Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;