For the Lord will not cast off forever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
Read this one slowly, because it doesn't deny the pain. "Though he cause grief" — the writer isn't pretending hard things don't happen or that God is somehow absent from them. What he's claiming is narrower and, honestly, more believable: that grief isn't the final chapter. Compassion follows it.
That's different from a lot of comfort we're handed, the kind that requires you to pretend the hard thing wasn't actually hard. This verse doesn't ask you to minimize what you've been through. It says something else comes after it — not instead of it.
If you've experienced loss and been told, in one way or another, to just get over it, this verse offers a more honest sequence: grief acknowledged, then compassion, not denial dressed up as faith.
If you're tired of comfort that asks you to pretend, it might be worth looking at what this kind of honest comfort actually claims.
A short video on this is coming soon — for now, read on.