Lamentations 3:23 (BSB)

They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

From Lamentations 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Lamentations 3:23

  • John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Lamentations 3:23: This verse confirms what I have said, that the same truth is here repeated by the Prophet, that God’s mercies were not consumed, nor had his compassion’s failed. How so? Because they were new, or renewed, every day; but he puts morning, and that in the plural number. I am surprised at the hour striking so soon; I hardly think that I have lectured a whole hour. PRAYER.
  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Lamentations 3:21-36: 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.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Lamentations 3:23: They are new every morning,.... That is, the tender mercies or compassions of God are, which prove that they fail not; there are instances of them every day, not only in a temporal, but in a spiritual sense; they are ever new, always fresh and vigorous, constant and perpetual; such are the love, grace, and mercy of God, though of old, yet daily renewed in...
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Lamentations 3:23: [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness. (k) We feel your benefits daily.