Lam 3:31-32.   For the LORD will not cast off for ever: But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. Ps 89:30-35.   If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David.