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Lamentations 3:23
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet, speaking to the LORD in the aftermath of Jerusalem's fall, pivots from lament (3:1–21) to a declaration of trust that anchors the remainder of the chapter.
The words — אֱמוּנָה ('e.mu.na.h) carries the full weight of covenant faithfulness, the same term used for God's reliability toward Israel throughout the Pentateuch; חֲדָשִׁים (cha.da.Shim) is not merely "fresh" but genuinely new, as in the language of creation.
The thread — The pairing of morning and God's faithfulness recurs in Psalms 30:5 (weeping by night, joy in the morning) and Isaiah 33:2 (strength every morning); Hebrews 10:23 grounds the believer's hope in the faithfulness of the one who promised.
Why it lands — The verse does not ask the reader to feel uplifted; it asks them to locate their hope in a repeated, observable pattern of God's character rather than in their own capacity to sustain it through another day.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Cross-references
- Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
- Psalms 30:5 For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Isaiah 33:2 O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
- Psalms 36:5 Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Psalms 89:33 But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
- Zephaniah 3:5 The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
- Exodus 34:6 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,
- Psalms 146:6 the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
- 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.
- Titus 1:2 in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.