Lamentations 3:32 meaning and explanation

Even if He causes grief, He will show compassion according to His abundant loving devotion.

Lamentations 3:32, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is an unnamed sufferer, traditionally taken as the prophet or a representative of Jerusalem after its destruction. He has just described God as an enemy who besieges and wounds him, yet in the middle of that complaint he turns to what he knows of God's character.

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