KJV King James Version
[It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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Lamentations 3:22
[It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
WEB World English Bible
It is because of Yahweh’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn’t fail.
ASV American Standard Version
It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.
Surrounding context — Lamentations 3
19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
22 [It is of] the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.
24 The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
25 The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.
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Psalm 86:15But thou, O Lord, [art] a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.Luke 1:50And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation.Nehemiah 9:31Nevertheless for thy great mercies’ sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou [art] a gracious and merciful God.Micah 7:18-19Who [is] a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth [in] mercy.Malachi 3:6For I [am] the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.Psalm 78:38But he, [being] full of compassion, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: yea, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.Psalm 106:45And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.Psalm 77:8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore?Ezekiel 20:8-9But they rebelled against me, and would not hearken unto me: they did not every man cast away the abominations of their eyes, neither did they forsake the idols of Egypt: then I said, I will pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.Ezra 9:8-9And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.Ezra 9:13-15And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities [deserve], and hast given us [such] deliverance as this;Ezekiel 20:21-22Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.Ezekiel 20:13-14But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which [if] a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
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