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Podcast: Seeking the Gospel Truth
Episode: 3.2.12: Lamentations 3: God's Mercy is New Each Morning, His Compassion Never Fails
Description: This middle chapter of Lamentations is different from the other 4. Sandwiched between lamenting over Jerusalem and Judah’s punishment, Jeremiah praises God for His Mercy. Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Lamentations are acrostic poems. The Hebrew language has 22 letters and each verse starts with a different letter of the alphabet. This made it easy for the people to memorize scripture. However, chapter 3 has 66 verses and it’s a triple acrostic with every 3 verses starting with a succeeding letter of the alphabet. This chapter was the inspiration for the hymn, “Great is Thy Faithfulness” by Thomas Chisholm, written in a log cabin in 1866...