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Forכִּיhe does notלֹאafflictעִנָּהfrom his heartמִלִּבּוֹor grieveוַיַּגֶּהthe sonsבְנֵיof man.אִישׁ
Lamentations 3:33
Study it in the app“For he does not afflict from his heart or grieve the sons of man.”
Even in affliction, the poet recalls that God does not afflict from his heartHoliness
With the Hebrew beneath
Lamentations 3:33, word by word
- afflictעִנָּהina
afflict
To make suffer, oppress.
Where else “ina” appears- from his heartלִּבּlib
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appears- or grieveיַּגֶּהyage
grieve, torment
To grieve, to cause sorrow, to afflict.
Where else “yage” appears- the sonsבְנֵיvene
human being
Literally "son of Adam": any person, a mortal.
Where else “vene” appears- of manאִישׁish
man
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “ish” appears
The context
32For though he afflicts, he will also have compassion according to the abundance of his loyal loves.
33 · This verse (above)
34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,