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?” And in concert is “the Lord will not thrust away unto the end, nor will he be wrathful unto the age”; and he will say to the one who has repented toward worth: “let your voice leave off from weeping, and your eyes from tears.”
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. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).
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