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Contemporary English Version

Lamentations 3:22

The Lord 's kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   God Continued...;   Thompson Chain Reference - Divine;   Mercifulness-Unmercifulness;   Mercy;   The Topic Concordance - Compassion;   Failure;   Faith/faithfulness;   Greatness;   Mercy;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Mercy of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Compassion;   God;   Mercy;   Providence of God;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;   Lovingkindness;   Pity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Mercy;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Lamentations of Jeremiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Compassion;   Fail;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Compassion;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 26;   Every Day Light - Devotion for May 2;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Because of the Lord’s faithful lovewe do not perish,for his mercies never end.
Hebrew Names Version
[It is of] the LORD's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
King James Version
It is of the Lord 's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
English Standard Version
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
New American Standard Bible
The LORD'S acts of mercy indeed do not end, For His compassions do not fail.
New Century Version
The Lord 's love never ends; his mercies never stop.
Amplified Bible
It is because of the LORD'S lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, Because His [tender] compassions never fail.
World English Bible
[It is of] Yahweh's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.
Geneva Bible (1587)
It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The LORD'S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.
Legacy Standard Bible
The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh indeed never cease,For His compassions never fail.
Berean Standard Bible
Because of the LORD's loving devotion we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.
Complete Jewish Bible
that the grace of Adonai is not exhausted, that his compassion has not ended.
Darby Translation
It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
Easy-to-Read Version
We are still alive because the Lord 's faithful love never ends.
George Lamsa Translation
Surely the kindness of the LORD never ceases and his mercies never fail.
Good News Translation
The Lord 's unfailing love and mercy still continue,
Lexham English Bible
The loyal love of Yahweh does not cease; his compassions do not come to an end.
Literal Translation
It is by the kindnesses of Jehovah that we are not consumed, for His mercies are not ended.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Namely, that the mercies of the LORDE are not clene gone, & that his louynge kyndnesse ceasseth not.
American Standard Version
It is of Jehovah's lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Bible in Basic English
It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Surely the LORD'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.
King James Version (1611)
It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
[Namely] it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
HETH. It is the mercies of the Lord, that he has not failed me, because his compassions are not exhausted. Pity us, O Lord, early every month: for we are not brought to an end, because his compassions are not exhausted.
English Revised Version
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Heth. The mercies of the Lord ben manye, for we ben not wastid; for whi hise merciful doyngis failiden not.
Update Bible Version
[It is of] Yahweh's loving-kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.
Webster's Bible Translation
[It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
New English Translation

ח (Khet)

The Lord 's loyal kindness never ceases; his compassions never end.
New King James Version
Through the LORD's mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.
New Living Translation
The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease.
New Life Bible
It is because of the Lord's loving-kindness that we are not destroyed for His loving-pity never ends.
New Revised Standard
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh, verily they are not exhausted, Verily! not at an end, are his compassions:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.
Revised Standard Version
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;
Young's Literal Translation
The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
THE MESSAGE
God 's loyal love couldn't have run out, his merciful love couldn't have dried up. They're created new every morning. How great your faithfulness! I'm sticking with God (I say it over and over). He's all I've got left.

Contextual Overview

21 Then I remember something that fills me with hope. 22 The Lord 's kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed. 23 The Lord can always be trusted to show mercy each morning. 24 Deep in my heart I say, "The Lord is all I need; I can depend on him!" 25 The Lord is kind to everyone who trusts and obeys him. 26 It is good to wait patiently for the Lord to save us. 27 When we are young, it is good to struggle hard 28 and to sit silently alone, if this is what the Lord intends. 29 Being rubbed in the dirt can teach us a lesson; 30 we can also learn from insults and hard knocks.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

of: Ezra 9:8, Ezra 9:9, Ezra 9:13-15, Nehemiah 9:31, Psalms 78:38, Psalms 106:45, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 20:9, Ezekiel 20:13, Ezekiel 20:14, Ezekiel 20:21, Ezekiel 20:22, Malachi 3:6

because: Psalms 77:8, Psalms 86:15, Micah 7:18, Micah 7:19, Luke 1:50

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:16 - the Lord Numbers 11:11 - wherefore have Deuteronomy 30:3 - then the 2 Kings 20:19 - Good 2 Chronicles 12:12 - when Ezra 9:10 - what shall we say Ezra 9:15 - for we remain Nehemiah 9:19 - in thy Job 11:6 - God exacteth Job 33:23 - to Psalms 92:2 - show Psalms 103:10 - dealt Psalms 119:77 - thy tender Psalms 129:4 - The Lord Ecclesiastes 9:4 - General Isaiah 1:9 - left Isaiah 39:8 - Good Lamentations 3:32 - General Lamentations 3:39 - doth Daniel 9:9 - To the Lord Joel 2:18 - and pity Zechariah 9:12 - even Romans 9:22 - endured Romans 9:29 - Except Romans 10:3 - submitted 1 Corinthians 1:9 - God James 5:11 - the Lord is

Cross-References

Genesis 1:26
God said, "Now we will make humans, and they will be like us. We will let them rule the fish, the birds, and all other living creatures."
Genesis 2:9
The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
Genesis 3:5
"God understands what will happen on the day you eat fruit from that tree. You will see what you have done, and you will know the difference between right and wrong, just as God does."
Genesis 3:6
The woman stared at the fruit. It looked beautiful and tasty. She wanted the wisdom that it would give her, and she ate some of the fruit. Her husband was there with her, so she gave some to him, and he ate it too.
Genesis 3:7
Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were naked. Then they sewed fig leaves together to make something to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Psalms 22:26
The poor will eat and be full, and all who worship you will be thankful and live in hope.
Proverbs 3:18
Wisdom is a life-giving tree, the source of happiness for all who hold on to her.
Jeremiah 22:23
Those who live in the palace paneled with cedar will groan with pain like women giving birth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is of] the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed,.... It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished by the sword, famine, and pestilence, yet God did not make a full end of them, according to his gracious promise, Jeremiah 30:11; but left them a seed, a remnant, from whence the Messiah, the mercy promised, should come, and to which it was owing they were not utterly cut off for their sins: nor are any of the Lord's special people ever consumed; their estates may be consumed, and so may their bodies by wasting diseases, and at last by death; but not their souls, not only as to their being, but as to their well being, here and hereafter; though their peace, joy, and comfort, may be gone for a while, through temptation, desertion, and the prevalence of corruption; and they may be in declining circumstances, as to the exercise of grace, yet the principle itself can never be lost; faith, hope, and love, will abide; nor can they eternally perish, or be punished with an everlasting destruction: all which is to be ascribed not to their own strength to preserve themselves, nor to any want of desert in them to be destroyed, or of power in God to consume them; but to his "mercies" and "goodnesses", the multitude of them; for there is an abundance of mercy, grace, and goodness in God, and various are the instances of it; as in the choice of his people to grace and glory; in the covenant of grace, and the blessings of it they are interested in; in redemption by Christ; in regeneration by his Spirit; in the forgiveness of their sins; and in their complete salvation; which are all so many reasons why they are not, and shall not be, consumed. The words may be rendered, "the mercies" or "goodnesses of the Lord, for they are not consumed", or, "that the mercies of the Lord", c. w Jarchi observes, that "tamnu" is as "tammu" the "nun" being inserted, according to Aben Ezra, instead of doubling the letter "mem"; and the former makes the sense to be this, in connection with the Lamentations 3:21; "this I recall to mind the mercies of the Lord, that they are not consumed"; to which agrees the Targum,

"the goodnesses, of the Lord, for they cease not;''

and so the Septuagint, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have not left me"; and to the same sense the Syriac version is, "the mercies of the Lord, for they have no end", and Aben Ezra's note on the text is almost in the same words,

"for there is no end to the mercies of God;''

because his compassions fail not; or, "his tender mercies" x; of which he is full, and which are bestowed in a free and sovereign way, and are the spring of all good things, and a never failing one they are; and this is another reason why the Lord's people are not consumed, and never shall, because of the mercies of the Lord, since these shall never fail; for though they are, yet should they fail, they might be consumed; but these are from everlasting to everlasting, and are kept with Christ their covenant head; see Psalms 103:17.

w חסדי יהוה כי לא תמנו "quod misericordiae Jehovae deficiunt", vel "defecerunt", so some in Vatablus; "studia Jehovae quod non defecerunt", Cocceius. x רחמו "miserationes ejus", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. In them the riches of God’s grace and mercy are set forth in the brightest colors, but no sooner are they ended than the prophet resumes the language of woe.

That we - He is speaking as the representative of all sufferers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 22. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed — Being thus humbled, and seeing himself and his sinfulness in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with him in judgment, has dealt with him in mercy; and that though the affliction was excessive, yet it was less than his iniquity deserved. If, indeed, any sinner be kept out of hell, it is because God's compassion faileth not.


 
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