Not cast off forever; stop weeping after worthy repentance
This also fits toward those in the captivity saying the things in the seventy-third Psalm: “why, O God, have you thrust away unto the end? has your wrath been angered upon sheep of your pasture?” (Lamentations 3:31) And in concert is “the Lord will not thrust away unto the end, nor will he be wrathful unto the age” (Psalm 74:1); and he will say to the one who has repented toward worth: “let your voice leave off from weeping, and your eyes from tears.” (Psalm 103:9) (Jeremiah 31:16)
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 3, 31. Ἁρμόζει τοῦτο καὶ πρὸς τοὺς έν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ λέγοντας τὰ ἐν τῷ ἑβδομηκοστῷ τρίτῳ Ψαλμῷ· «ἱνατί, ὁ θεός, ἀπώσω εἰς τέλος; ὠργίσθη ὁ θυμός σου ἐπὶ πρόβατα νομῆς σου;« σύμφωνον δὲ τὸ «οὐκ εἰς τέλος ἀπώσεται κύριος οὐδὲ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μηνιεῖ«· ἐρεῖ δὲ τῷ πρὸς ἀξίαν μετανοήσαντι· «διαλειπέτω ἡ φωνή σου ἀπὸ κλαυθμοῦ, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου ἀπὸ δακρύων.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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