What Does Lamentations 3:23 Mean in the King James?
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
What is new each morning is held inside what has never wavered.
THE MEANING
Mercies meet you new each morning, and God’s trustworthiness is abundant beneath that renewal. Today’s freshness rests on a reliability that does not have to be remade.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that yesterday’s failure or depletion determines what can meet you today.
THE ROOT
אֱמוּנָתֶךָ
ʾĕmûnāteḵā
GROWS FROM
אמן
Firm, steady, reliable; אמן is transliterated ʾ-m-n (ʾāman).
The verse’s faithfulness carries the sense of what is firm enough to be trusted and leaned on. Its root holds trust and steadiness together: the morning’s renewal rests on what remains dependable.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmēn: Truly; firm, or so be it.
אָמֵן
The same root turns steadiness into an affirmation: what is reliable can be affirmed as true.
neʾĕmān: Reliable, trustworthy.
נֶאֱמָן
This form describes someone as dependable, showing the quality beneath the verse’s abundant faithfulness.
heʾĕmîn: To trust, to believe.
הֶאֱמִין
Trust is the response to what is firm; the verse presents God’s reliability as something a person can lean on.
חֲדָשִׁים
ḥădāshîm
GROWS FROM
חדש
To be new or renew; חָדָשׁ is transliterated ḥādāsh.
The plural form means new things or renewals, giving the morning’s freshness a repeated, arriving quality. The same root gives the word for a month, חֹדֶשׁ (ḥōdesh), linked to the new moon and the return of a cycle.
ALSO GROWS
ḥiddēsh: Renewed, made new.
חִדֵּשׁ
This verb makes the renewal active: what is new in the verse is continually made fresh.
ḥōdesh: Month; new moon.
חֹדֶשׁ
The word’s link with the returning new moon echoes the verse’s recurring arrival of newness.
THE PATTERN
Renewal arrives day by day because what sustains it outlasts the night.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.THE THREAD
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.The Hebrew word behind “faith” is אֱמוּנָתוֹ (ʾĕmûnātô, his faith or trust), from the same root אמן (ʾ-m-n, firm and reliable) as the faithfulness in Lamentations. The shared root connects living by trust with the steady ground that makes trust possible.
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