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Lamentations 3:22
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist (traditionally Jeremiah) speaks in first-person plural to Yahweh, deliberately recalling this truth in the midst of Jerusalem's destruction to sustain hope (v. 21).
The words — חֲסִידֵי (chasidei) is the key noun, literally "covenant loyalties," grounding the verse in a binding obligation rather than a feeling. The negation לֹא כָל֖וּ (lo kalu, "they do not come to an end") is a flat denial of exhaustion, not a hopeful wish.
The thread — The same attribute appears in Psalms 86:15 ("abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness"), Nehemiah 9:31 ("in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them"), and Luke 1:50 ("His mercy extends… from generation to generation"), each pairing chesed with endurance across time.
Why it lands — The verse asks the reader to locate the ground of survival in God's covenant obligation, not in the reader's own strength or the current circumstances.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Cross-references
- Psalms 86:15 But You, O Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness.
- Luke 1:50 His mercy extends to those who fear Him, from generation to generation.
- Nehemiah 9:31 But in Your great compassion, You did not put an end to them; nor did You forsake them, for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
- Micah 7:18 Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- Malachi 3:6 “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- Psalms 78:38 And yet He was compassionate; He forgave their iniquity and did not destroy them. He often restrained His anger and did not unleash His full wrath.
- Psalms 77:8 Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
- Psalms 106:45 And He remembered His covenant with them, and relented by the abundance of His loving devotion.
- Ezra 9:8 But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
- Ezekiel 20:8 But they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.