Text: Lamentations 3:22-23
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 34:6
Subject: Faithfulness and mercy amid covenant judgment
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Anchor Text: Exod 34:6-7 — The Attribute Formula
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.