They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
Parallel translations
- WEB They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- KJV They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
- NKJV They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
- NASB They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
- NLT Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning.
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Quick answer
God's mercies are new every morning, and great is his faithfulness. It celebrates the daily, dependable renewal of God's grace.
Overview
One of Scripture's most beloved declarations, this verse affirms that God's mercies are freshly given each morning and his faithfulness is 'great.' Even in ruin, God remains constant and his grace inexhaustible. This faithfulness is supremely guaranteed in Christ, who is 'faithful and true' and whose mercies sustain his people every day (Revelation 19:11).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Heb 10:23Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
- Ps 30:5For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
- Isa 33:2O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
- Ps 89:33But I will not withdraw My loving devotion from him, nor ever betray My faithfulness.
- Ps 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
- Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
- Exod 34:6Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
- Ps 146:6the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them. He remains faithful forever.
- Heb 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.
- Titus 1:2in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.
- Ps 89:1–2A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
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Christ at the center
The weeping over a ruined city and the steadfast mercies that are new every morning point to the man of sorrows who wept over Jerusalem and whose mercy rises new from the grave.
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