Lamentations 3:25-26
Lamentations 3 · shown in the Douay-Rheims
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Read Lamentations 3:25-26 in the NABRE onlineThe Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good to wait with silence for the salvation of God.
Reflection
The Lord is good to those who wait for him. It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord. The goodness is double: the Lord is good to those who wait, and the waiting itself is good. Quiet waiting is not passivity; it is trust.
Wait quietly
The Lord is good to those who wait for him — and the waiting itself is called good. Quiet waiting is not passivity; it is trust expressed as stillness. The writer is sitting in the ruins of a destroyed city when he writes this, which makes the trust remarkable rather than naive.
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