The concluding affirmation 'But you are the same, and your years have no end' distills the entire theological argument to its essential claim: God's immutability and eternity. The phrase 'you are the same' (atah hu) invokes the divine self-revelation to Moses ('I AM') and expresses the permanence of God's being across time and change. The phrase 'your years have no end' (shenim lo tiklayun) emphasizes that God does not experience time as limitation or finitude but as infinite extension. This final verse offers not a solution to suffering but rather a ground for confidence that transcends suffering: the assurance that one addresses an eternally faithful God. The shift from cosmic vision to intimate address—'you are'—brings the scope of the psalm back to the relationship between the individual sufferer and the eternal God. This verse transforms the entire preceding lamentation into an act of faith, the sufferer's casting of their transient life into the lap of eternity.

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