Lamentations 3: Hope in God’s Faithful Mercy

A man who has suffered greatly under God’s anger describes his darkness and despair. He then recalls the LORD’s loyal love and mercies renewed each day, urges patient waiting, repentance, and trust in God’s rule over all things, tells how God heard him from the pit, and asks Him to repay his enemies.

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What does the man teach in 3:37-38 about where events come from?

Nothing happens unless the Lord ordains it, both trouble and goodGood comes from God, but trouble comes only from chanceTrouble comes from rival gods that God cannot stopGod allows events but has no plan for any of them