They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Parallel translations
- WEB They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.
- BSB They are new every morning; great is Your 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 fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
- Ps 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.
- Isa 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.
- Ps 89:33Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.
- Ps 36:5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
- Zeph 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.
- Exod 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,
- Ps 146:6Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
- Heb 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;
- Ps 89:1–2I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
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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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