The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23, RSV
"The five poem-prayers in Lamentations ... express the suffering God's people experienced during and after the fall of Jerusalem, the most devastating disaster in their history. At the very center of this dark time, and placed at almost the exact center of these five poems ... is this verse: "The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end. ... "
God's persistence is not a dogged repetition of duty. It has all the surprise and creativity, and yet all the certainty and regularity, of a new day. Sunrise -- when the spontaneous and the certain arrive at the same time."
Run with the Horses
Steadfast Love, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.
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