LAM 3:22 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Yahweh’s loyal commitment doesn’t cease.
⇔ His mercy doesn’t end.

Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative, green:YHWH.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST Yahweh never stops faithfully loving us, and he shows his compassion for us forever.
⇔ He never stops acting kindly toward us.

BSB Because of the loving devotion[fn] of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.
⇔

3:22 Forms of the Hebrew chesed are translated here and in most cases throughout the Scriptures as loving devotion; the range of meaning includes love, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, and mercy, as well as loyalty to a covenant.

OEB That the love of the Lord is unceasing,
⇔ His pity unfailing.

CSB Because of the LORD’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end.

NLT The faithful love of the LORD never ends! His mercies never cease.

NIV Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

CEV The LORD's kindness never fails! If he had not been merciful, we would have been destroyed.

ESV The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;

NASB The LORD’S lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

LSB The lovingkindnesses of Yahweh indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail.

WEBBE ⇔ It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,
⇔ because his mercies don’t fail.

WMBB (Same as above)

MSG ^(22-24)God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out,
  his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.
They’re created new every morning.
  How great your faithfulness!
I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).
  He’s all I’ve got left.

NET The Lord’s loyal kindness never ceases;
⇔ his compassions never end.

LSV The kindnesses of YHWH! For we have not been consumed,
For His mercies have not ended.

FBV It's because of the Lord's trustworthy love that our lives are not finished, for through his merciful actions he never lets us down.

T4T Yahweh never stops faithfully loving us,
⇔ and he never stops being kind to us.

LEB No LEB LAM book available

NRSV The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end;

NKJV Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

NAB The
d LORD
d*’s acts of mercy are not exhausted, his compassion is not spent;

BBE It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.

Moff No Moff LAM book available

JPS Surely the LORD'S mercies are not consumed, surely His compassions fail not.

ASV It is of Jehovah’s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

DRA Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.

YLT The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

Drby It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;

RV It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

SLT The mercies of Jehovah are that we were not consumed, for his compassions were not finished.

Wbstr It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

KJB-1769 ¶ It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

KJB-1611 ¶ It is of the LORDs mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
(¶ It is of the LORDs mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.)

Bshps No Bshps LAM book available

Gnva It is the Lordes mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.
(It is the Lords mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. )

Cvdl No Cvdl LAM book available

Wycl No Wycl LAM book available

Luth No Luth LAM book available

ClVg Heth Misericordiæ Domini, quia non sumus consumpti; quia non defecerunt miserationes ejus.
(Heth Of_mercy Master, because not/no we_are spent; because not/no they_failed sympathies his. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT LAM book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

(Occurrence 0) The steadfast love of Yahweh never ceases

(Some words not found in UHB: steadfast_love_of YHWH that/for/because/then/when not cease that/for/because/then/when not come_to_an_end compassions_of,his )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word steadfast love, you can express the same idea with the phrase “love faithfully.” Alternate translation: “Yahweh never stops loving his people faithfully”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

(Occurrence 0) his compassions never end

(Some words not found in UHB: steadfast_love_of YHWH that/for/because/then/when not cease that/for/because/then/when not come_to_an_end compassions_of,his )

If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea behind the word compassions, you can express the same idea with a verbal form such as “care.” Alternate translation: “he never stops caring for those who suffer”

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