Lamentations 3:31

“For the Lord will not cast off for ever.] Which is not to be understood of all his creatures; for there are some he does cast off for ever, as the angels that sinned; reprobate men, profligate and abandoned sinners, that live and die impenitent; and unbelievers, carnal professors, and apostates; but not his own special and peculiar people, the people whom he has foreknown and loved with an everlasting love, his spiritual Israel; or, as the Targum supplies it, “his servants”; (see <199414>Psalm 94:14 <451102>Romans 11:2 <243137>Jeremiah 31:37 33:25,26); he may seem for a while to reject them, but not in reality and for ever; as when he hides his face from them, lays his afflicting hand on…”

“True repentance is never without hope (Psa 94:14).”

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“3:31 Cp. Ps 103:8-11.”

“Sa1 12:22; Psa 77:7, Psa 94:14, Psa 103:8-10; Isa 54:7-10, Isa 57:16; Jer 31:37; Jer 32:40, Jer 33:24; Mic 7:18; Rom 11:1-6 Lamentations 3:32”