Lamentations 3:22
in Lamentations 3Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
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ASV
It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
KJV
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseIt is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed - Being thus humbled, and seeing himself and his sinfulness in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with him in judgment, has dealt with him in mercy; and that though the affliction was excessive, yet it seas less than his iniquity deserved. If, indeed, any sinner be kept out of hell, it is because God’s compassion faileth not.
This site's exposition
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed
on Lamentations 3:22-24
What is recalled to mind is named here, and the bench marks this as the book's structural and theological center, the alphabet of ruin interrupted by a confession that does not depend on Jerusalem's circumstances at all: it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness, the verse behind the hymn that still carries its wording, states the mercy as renewed rather than merely remembered, a fresh grant each day rather than a stock running down. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him answers the earlier despair verse for verse, my strength and my hope is perished from the Lord at 3:18 now met by a chosen portion in that same Lord, hope relocated from the man's circumstances to the object of his faith. Calvin reads the placement as deliberate, the single steadiest confession in the Old Testament set at the center of its bleakest book, grief carried rather than denied and mercy declared in the middle of it rather than after it ends.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
That great is his faithfulness. Though the covenant seemed to be broken, they owned that it still continued in full force; and, though Jerusalem be in ruins, the truth of the Lord endures for ever. Note, Whatever hard things we suffer, we must never entertain any hard thoughts of God, but must still be ready to own that he is both kind and faithful.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חַֽסְדֵ֤י | chasdei | [the] covenant loyalti<es> of | H2617 → | |
| יְהוָה֙ | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| כִּ֣י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תָ֔מְנוּ | tamenu | we have met our end | H8552 → | |
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| כָל֖וּ | khalu | they come to an end | H3615 → | 208 times |
| רַחֲמָֽיו׃ | rachamav | compassion<s> his | H7356 → |
חַֽסְדֵ֤י[the] covenant loyalti<es> of
chasdeiH2617 →
יְהוָה֙Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
כִּ֣יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תָ֔מְנוּwe have met our end
tamenuH8552 →
כִּ֥יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
כָל֖וּthey come to an end
khaluH3615 →208 times
רַחֲמָֽיו׃compassion<s> his
rachamavH7356 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Malachi 3:6“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
it leads to
- Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
- James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Lamentations 3:22–23
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
- Jeremiah 32:27
“Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?
- Numbers 23:19
Through
Luke 1:50His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
it leads to
- Psalms 103:17–18
But from everlasting to everlasting the loving devotion of the LORD extends to those who fear Him, and His righteousness to their children’s children—
- Exodus 34:6–7
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 20:6
but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments.
- Psalms 103:17–18
Where this verse is studied
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.