Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Lamentations 3:23

“They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”

Lamentations 3:23 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Lamentations 3:23, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Lamentations 3. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

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.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 11 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Hebrews 10:23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
  • Psalms 30:5For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
  • Isaiah 33:2O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
  • Psalms 89:33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
  • Psalms 36:5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
  • Zephaniah 3:5The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
  • Exodus 34:6And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
  • Psalms 146:6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
  • Hebrews 6:18That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  • Titus 1:2In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
  • Psalms 89:1I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.

More to meet God in Lamentations

Lamentations 3:22Lamentations 1:9Lamentations 1:21Lamentations 3:25Lamentations 1:5Lamentations 1:18Lamentations 1:6Lamentations 1:8Lamentations 1:1Lamentations 2:21Lamentations 1:20Lamentations 1:2Lamentations 1:13Lamentations 2:2

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.