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An Intertextuality Pair — one connection between two passages, shown as linked verse cards: the Later text and the Earlier text it quotes, alludes to or echoes. The Significance essay explains why the link matters and where it points in Christ.

Reference Type— how explicit the link is: Quotation, Allusion, or Echo
Connection Method(s)— how it carries meaning: e.g. Typology, Promise-Fulfillment, Analogy, Longitudinal Theme
Found via— where the connection was identified, e.g. the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge or an Anchor-Text Network

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Intertextuality Pair

Lamentations 3:22-23 → Exodus 34:6

Allusion

Later text

Lamentations 3:22-23BSB

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

Earlier text

Exodus 34:6BSB

Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: "The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,

Significance

Lamentations 3:22-23 confesses that God's חֲסָדִים (chasadim, "acts of loving devotion") are "new every morning" and His אֱמוּנָה (emunah, "faithfulness") is great, drawing directly on the Sinai attribute formula of Exodus 34:6 where God proclaims Himself רַב־חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת (rav-chesed ve'emet, "abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness"). The poet extends the Exodus formula by adding the temporal dimension of daily renewal: God's mercies do not merely exist as static attributes but are actively replenished each morning. In doing so, Lamentations grounds the hope of survival through exile in the same divine character revealed at Sinai after Israel's first great apostasy.

Found via: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme

▸ The Attribute Formula

Linked Mentions 3

Trajectory Tables 2

Anchor Texts 1

Exodus 34:6-7 — The Attribute Formula

Lamentations 3:22-23 → Exodus 34:6

Significance

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