What does Lamentations 3:22-23 mean?
A book of grief
Lamentations is a set of five poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon, around 587 BC. The city was burned, the temple destroyed and many people killed or taken away. Tradition links the book to Jeremiah, though the book itself does not name its author.
Hope in the middle of the dark
Chapter 3 opens with some of the bleakest lines in the Bible, a person who feels God himself has turned against him. Then, almost in the exact middle of the whole book, the writer says he calls something to mind (Lamentations 3:21), and that gives him hope. Verses 22 and 23 are what he remembers.
New every morning
The writer does not say the suffering is over. He says God's compassion has not failed, and that each day brings a fresh supply of it. You do not need tomorrow's mercy today. There will be new mercy when tomorrow comes.
Permission to lament
This passage is a gift to anyone grieving. It shows faith can sit honestly with loss, complaint and tears, and still find something true to hold. Hope here is not denial. It is remembering who God is while everything else hurts.
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness., Lamentations 3:22-23Ask your own question →
Who wrote Lamentations?
The book does not say. Jewish and Christian tradition has long linked it to the prophet Jeremiah.
What does "new every morning" mean?
That God's mercy is renewed daily. Each day has its own fresh supply of his compassion.
Is it wrong to lament as a Christian?
No. Lamentations, many psalms and Jesus himself show that honest grief can be part of faith.
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