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Pentecost Season · Proper 22 · Year C

Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137

The Steadfast Love of the LORD Never Ceases

October 8, 2028

By the Waters of Babylon, Kate Gardiner Hastings
By the Waters of Babylon, Kate Gardiner Hastings, 19th centuryPublic domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Young women of the exile sit weeping on the bank beneath the willows, one hiding her face against a tree, with the walls of the foreign city far behind them.By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and there we wept when we remembered Zion. On the willows there we hung up our harps.Kate Gardiner HastingsAn English painter of the Victorian period who worked in the classical manner of Leighton and Poynter.Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsKnown through its public-domain reproduction.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Revised Common Lectionary
GospelLuke 17:5-10Lk 17:5-10
Epistle2 Tim. 1:1-142 Tm 1:1-14
Old TestamentLam. 1:1-6Lam 1:1-6Alt. OTHab. 1:1-4; 2:1-4Hb 1:1-4; 2:1-4
PsalterLam. 3:19-26Lam 3:19-26 orPs. 137Ps 137Alt. PsalmPs. 37:1-9Ps 37:1-9

Overview & Insights

"The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning." (Lamentations 3:22-23)

Amid the book's grief, the speaker turns to recall God's steadfast love and faithfulness as grounds for hope, concluding it is good to wait quietly for the LORD's salvation; the alternate, Psalm 137, is the exiles' own raw lament by the rivers of Babylon.

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Commentary

Lamentations 3 CommentaryLam 3 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Verse-by-verse notes on the turn from grief to remembered hope in God's mercies.

Lamentations 3:19 CommentariesLam 3:19 Commentaries BibleHub

Aggregates classic commentators on the psalmist's recollection of God's faithfulness.

Psalm 137 CommentaryPs 137 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Covers the alternate reading, the exiles' lament by the rivers of Babylon.

Background & Word Study

Lamentations 3:19-26Lam 3:19-26 Sefaria

The Hebrew text alongside translation.

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