Holy Scripture

Lamentations 3:27

A church father on this verse
“Celsus then extracts from the gospel the precept, "To him who strikes you once, you shall offer yourself to be struck again," although without giving any passage from the Old Testament that he considers opposed to it. On the one hand, we know that "it was said to them in old time, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — AGAINST CELSUS 7:25

Source: Septuagint

Original

27It is good for a man When he bears a yoke in his youth.

Modern

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In context

25The Lord is good to them that wait for him: The soul which shall seek him

26Is good, and shall wait for, And quietly expect salvation of the Lord.

— Lamentations 3:27 —

28He will sit alone, and be silent, Because he has borne it upon him.

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