Lamentations 3:23
in Lamentations 3They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
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ASV
They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
KJV
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThey are new every morning - Day and night proclaim the mercy and compassion of God. Who could exist throughout the day, if there were not a continual superintending Providence? Who could be preserved in the night, if the Watchman of Israel ever slumbered or slept?
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 words behind it
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חֲדָשִׁים֙ | chadashim | [they are] new | H2319 → | |
| לַבְּקָרִ֔ים | labekarim | to the mornings | H1242 → | |
| רַבָּ֖ה | rabah | [is] great | H7227 → | 454 times |
| אֱמוּנָתֶֽךָ׃ | ʾemunatekha | faithfulness your | H530 → |
חֲדָשִׁים֙[they are] new
chadashimH2319 →
לַבְּקָרִ֔יםto the mornings
labekarimH1242 →
רַבָּ֖ה[is] great
rabahH7227 →454 times
אֱמוּנָתֶֽךָ׃faithfulness your
ʾemunatekhaH530 →
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
Hebrews 10:23Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
it leads to
- Hebrews 6:18
Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:24
The One who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
- 1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship with His Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one.
- Hebrews 6:18
Through
Psalms 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
it leads to
- Isaiah 54:7–8
“For a brief moment I forsook you, but with great compassion I will bring you back.
- 2 Corinthians 4:17
For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- Psalms 126:5–6
Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.
- Matthew 5:4
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- Isaiah 54:7–8
Where this verse is studied
3 studies on this verse
On Lamentations 3:23
The Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5:22–23 names a singular fruit (karpos, not fruits) with nine visible facets. Gifts are distributed; fruit is unified. Every believer bears the whole fruit. The grammar is the theology.
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On Lamentations 3:23
Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Lamentations 3:22–24 · MannaFest
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations and John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations.