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The Bible expects God’s people to suffer, and it answers suffering with God’s nearness now and an end to pain later. The Lord is “close to the brokenhearted” (Psalm 34:18), trials produce perseverance (Romans 5:3-4), and a day is coming with no more “mourning or crying or pain” (Revelation 21:4). Some passages give a reason for a particular suffering. Paul’s thorn in the flesh was given “to keep me from becoming conceited” (2 Corinthians 12:7), and Lamentations 3 ties the…