Contradictions and Paradoxes in Lamentations 3:25

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Lamentations 3:25 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Lamentations 3:25. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to the author of Lamentations, God is kind and helps those who are patient and look for Him. If you trust in God and seek Him, He will be good to you.

Lamentations 3:25: The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.

Contradiction with Psalm 10:1

This verse questions why God seems distant in times of trouble, contrasting with the idea of God being good to those who seek Him.

Psalm 10:1: Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?

Contradiction with Job 21:7

Job observes that the wicked live and become old, powerful, and prosperous, which contrasts with the notion that God is necessarily good to those who seek Him.

Job 21:7: Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 8:14

It discusses the vanity and injustice where righteous people get what the wicked deserve, and vice versa, contradicting the idea of divine goodness to the seekers of God.

Ecclesiastes 8:14: There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] vanity.

Contradiction with Isaiah 45:7

Describes God creating both peace and evil, challenging the notion that God is inherently good to all who seek Him.

Isaiah 45:7: I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these [things].

Contradiction with Psalm 73:3

The psalmist notes the prosperity of the wicked, which challenges the idea that God is specifically good to those who seek Him.

Psalm 73:3: For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Contradiction with Jeremiah 12:1

Jeremiah complains that the ways of the wicked prosper, which contrasts with God's goodness being tied to those who seek Him.

Jeremiah 12:1: Righteous [art] thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of [thy] judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? [wherefore] are all they happy that deal very treacherously? [talk...: or, reason the case with thee]

Contradiction with Ecclesiastes 9:2

Asserts that the same events happen to both the righteous and the wicked, challenging the promise of divine goodness exclusively for seekers.

Ecclesiastes 9:2: All [things come] alike to all: [there is] one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [is] the good, so [is] the sinner; [and] he that sweareth, as [he] that feareth an oath.
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