Lamentations 3:23
in Lamentations 3They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
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They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
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They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
8 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
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed
on Lamentations 3:22-24
What was recalled is named here: “Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail”. The next verse says the mercies “are new every morning”. “The LORD is my portion” answers verse 18, where his hope from the LORD had perished.
This site's exposition
They are new every morning
The loving devotion of Lamentations 3:22 is renewed daily. Adam Clarke tied the line to the Watchman of Israel who never sleeps, keeping His people through each night. Matthew Henry notes that this faithfulness was confessed while Jerusalem lay in ruins, and it answers the lost hope of Lamentations 3:18.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Second, an approbation from the Lord's divine mercy is indicated. "They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness." Namely, as I, the Lord God, openly approve. Again: "great is thy faithfulness." That is, regarding Jeremiah, who, among your suppliants, acknowledge you. For, the Apostle …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
They are new every morning,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3170: “The Novelties of Divine Mercy” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
THE Book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah is very dolorous. When you look upon the dragons, owls, pelicans and bitterns of the wilderness, you have a fit picture of his mournful state. He was full of grief, like a bottle needing vent. His heart was ready to burst with wormwood and with gall. But the whole current changes when the Prophet brings to his remembrance the mercy of God!
A commentator
Charles Spurgeon1834–1892
The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3170: “The Novelties of Divine Mercy” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) · Written before 1892.
proposed
THE Book of the Lamentations of Jeremiah is very dolorous. When you look upon the dragons, owls, pelicans and bitterns of the wilderness, you have a fit picture of his mournful state. He was full of grief, like a bottle needing vent. His heart was ready to burst with wormwood and with gall. But the whole current changes when the Prophet brings to his remembrance the mercy of God! No sooner does he think of the compassions of the Most High than at once he takes his harp from the willows and begins to sing as joyously as ever that sweet singer of Israel, David, sang before him. And, truly, if we, too, instead of harping upon our miseries, would but reflect upon our mercies, we would exchange our mournful dirges for songs ofjoy! It is true that God's people are a tried people, but it is equally true that God's Grace is equal to their trials! It is quite true that through much tribulation they enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but then they do enter—and the thought of the Kingdom that is coming sustains them in their present tribulation! They wade through the waters of woe, often breast-deep, but the billows do not, and shall not, go over them! They shall still be able to sing even in the midst of the tempest. I would suggest to any here who are in the habit of complaining—and I would remind you that it is a very bad habit—and to any of you who have become chronic murmurers, that this temper of mind is exceedingly sinful. While, on the other hand, the remembrance of God's mercy and grateful talk about it is a virtuous habit—one which is honoring to God as well as strengthening and profitable to our own souls.
Modern Voices1 voice
Lastly, there is this value about the colour that men call colourless; that it suggests in some way the mixed and troubled average of existence, especially in its quality of strife and expectation and promise. Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve …
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
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Charles Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 3170: “The Novelties of Divine Mercy” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition); GK Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, The Glory of Grey; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.