Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
Parallel translations
- WEB Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- KJV Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- NKJV Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise failed forevermore?
- NASB Has His favor ceased forever? Has His promise come to an end forever?
- NLT Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?
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Quick answer
He wonders whether God's steadfast love has vanished forever and His promise failed for all generations.
Overview
Asaph probes the very foundations of his faith, questioning God's covenant love and faithfulness. The fear that God's loving kindness and promise might fail strikes at Israel's deepest hope. The implied answer, drawn from God's revealed character, is no, for His covenant love endures, ultimately confirmed and sealed in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 23:19God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Rom 9:6It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
- 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
- Num 14:34In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
- Jer 15:18Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
- Luke 16:25–26But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
- Isa 27:11When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
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