Bible Verses for Hopelessness — "His Mercies Are New Every Morning" (Lamentations 3:19-26)
Lamentations 3:19-26 · Berean Standard Bible
Written from the ruins of a destroyed city, Lamentations 3 refuses to end in despair. Right after remembering "my affliction and my wandering," the writer makes a deliberate turn: "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning." It is the passage for a heart that has hit bottom and needs one true reason to hope again.
19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
20Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.
21Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:
22Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
23They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!
24“The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”
25The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
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