Lamentations 3:22
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Lamentations 3:22 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Lamentations 3:22 is a verse from the book of Lamentations in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Lamentations 3:22 — KJV
“It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.”
— Lamentations 3:22 (KJV)
Lamentations 3:22 in Context — About the Book of Lamentations
Lamentations is five funeral poems over fallen Jerusalem — grief given holy structure. At its exact center burns the flame the darkness never reaches: because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed; His mercies are new every morning. It teaches us to grieve with hope.
Cross-References for Lamentations 3:22
“For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:22: lord, consumed, because
“For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:22: consumed, because, fail
“Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: did cast...: Heb. corrupted his compassions”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:22: lord, because, compassions
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc.”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:22: lord, because
“And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:”
Shares key themes with Lamentations 3:22: lord, because
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