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Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verses 22–23
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.Lamentations 3:22-23 · King James Version
What Lamentations 3:22-23 means
This sits in the middle of a book of grief, written by a man who watched his city burn. He isn't over it — a few verses earlier he says his strength and his hope are perished. New every morning is what he preaches to himself in the dark, and that's exactly why it carries weight.
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Lamentations 3:22-23 in context
20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
24The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 86:15
- Luke 1:50
- Nehemiah 9:31
- Micah 7:18-19
- Malachi 3:6
- Psalms 78:38
- Psalms 106:45
- Psalms 77:8
- Hebrews 10:23
- Psalms 30:5
- Isaiah 33:2
- Psalms 89:33
Key words (Strong's)
- compassionsrachamcompassionH7356 →
- consumedtâmamto complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitiveH8552 →
- mercieschêçêdkindnessH2617 →
- morningbôqerproperly, dawnH1242 →
- LORD'SYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- greatrababundantH7227 →
- newchâdâshnewH2319 →
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Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 21-36