Lamentations 3

The Line That Was Written Over Rubble — a note on this chapter.

Which worship songs are based on Lamentations 3?

  1. A Million Tongues — Sinach (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The statement that God's blessings are renewed each day closely echoes the declaration that his mercies are new every morning, within a context that also emphasizes divine faithfulness.

  2. Psalm 42 (I Will Praise Him Again) — CityAlight (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of fresh mercy arriving with each morning clearly echoes Jeremiah’s confession of God’s continually renewed compassion amid devastation.

  3. Praise The Lord Forever — Phil Wickham (2026) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of divine mercy arriving anew today closely paraphrases Lamentations' affirmation that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  4. Everyday Hallelujah (Voice Memo) — Phil Wickham (2026) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song directly uses Lamentations’ declaration of God’s great faithfulness, placing it within praise that persists through hardship and changing seasons.

  5. Every Morning — Aaron Shust (2021) Lamentations 3:22-24

    The chorus directly adopts Lamentations’ declaration that divine compassion is renewed each morning and that God’s faithfulness is great. The bridge’s identification of God as the singer’s portion further confirms this passage as the song’s central source.

  6. Can't Get Enough — AWAKE84 (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of inward renewal occurring each morning closely echoes Lamentations' declaration that God's mercies are renewed every morning, though the song applies the language specifically to joy.

  7. Quédate — Alex Zurdo (2023) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The expectation of receiving newly renewed divine mercy each morning closely paraphrases Lamentations’ declaration of God’s daily faithfulness.

  8. New Day — Danny Gokey (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The sunrise imagery presents divine mercy as renewed with each morning, closely reflecting Lamentations' declaration of God's daily-renewed compassion and faithfulness.

  9. LOW KEY — Forrest Frank (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The closing gratitude closely reproduces Lamentations' declaration that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  10. Always Been God - Studio — Hillsong Worship & Hannah Hobbs (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The morning prayer for renewed mercy closely invokes Lamentations' declaration that God's compassion is renewed each morning.

  11. Again — Jeremy Camp (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The declaration that divine mercy is inexhaustible closely paraphrases Lamentations' affirmation that God's mercies never end and are continually renewed.

  12. Sunrise — John Mark Pantana (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song closely reflects the passage’s association of God’s continually renewed mercy with each morning. Its repeated pairing of daily mercy, freshness, and sunrise strongly indicates this text rather than a merely general theme of renewal.

  13. Great Is Thy Faithfulness (The Voice Performance) — Jordan Smith (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song directly quotes the essence of Lamentations 3:22-23, which speaks of God's mercies being new every morning and His faithfulness.

  14. Hold On — Kutless (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The encouragement that things will get better and the acknowledgment of darkness before dawn resonates with Lamentations 3:22-23, which speaks of hope and renewal after suffering.

  15. Gratefulness — Rend Collective (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The recurring description of divine mercy being renewed each morning directly invokes Jeremiah's affirmation of hope amid Jerusalem's devastation.

  16. On Repeat / All To Him - Live — Hillsong Worship, Jad Gillies (2022) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The combination of divine mercy, dawn, and daily renewal closely echoes Lamentations’ declaration that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  17. Praise The Lord Forever — Pat Barrett (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The lyrics convey the theme of God's enduring love and new mercies each day, paralleling the message found in Lamentations about God's faithfulness and renewal.

  18. No Greater Love — John Van Deusen (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of daily newness closely reproduces Lamentations' declaration that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  19. Broken Pieces — Phil Thompson & Grace Idowu (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song's mention of 'new mercies' aligns with the theme of God's faithfulness and renewal found in Lamentations, where it speaks of God's mercies being new every morning.

  20. God Is In Control — DOE (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The repeated affirmation of newly received mercy each morning closely paraphrases Lamentations' declaration of God's continually renewed compassion and faithfulness.

  21. Life In Me — Tasha Layton (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of receiving fresh mercy with each new morning closely paraphrases Lamentations' declaration that God's mercies are renewed every morning.

  22. Monday Morning Faith (Live) — SEU Worship & Dahlia Reyes & Natalia Reyes (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The chorus directly echoes Jeremiah's affirmation that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  23. Steadfast Love — Tenielle Neda & Nick Chambers (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song explicitly references the enduring nature of God's love, which closely aligns with the declaration in Lamentations that the Lord's mercies are new every morning and His faithfulness is great.

  24. Because Of The Lord's Great Love — Brooke Ligertwood (2026) Lamentations 3:22

    The song title reproduces the opening clause of Lamentations 3:22, which grounds Israel's preservation amid devastation in the Lord's covenant love. No further connections can be verified without the released lyrics.

  25. Promises — Maverick City Music & Naomi Raine (2023) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The chorus directly adopts Lamentations' declaration of the greatness of God's faithfulness and makes it the song's central refrain.

  26. Faithfulness (Live) — Lakewood Music & Jami Garcia (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The chorus closely restates Jeremiah's declaration that God's steadfast love and mercy do not end, are renewed each morning, and demonstrate his great faithfulness.

  27. DON'T GIVE UP ON ME — Sondae (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song reflects the theme of God's mercies being new every morning, paralleling the acknowledgment of God's unending mercy amidst personal struggles.

  28. You've Been Good — Jonathan Stamper (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song reflects the idea of new mercies every day, which parallels the message in Lamentations about God's faithfulness and the renewal of mercies each morning.

  29. My Refuge — TAYA (2025) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The song references the concept of God's mercy being renewed each morning, which closely aligns with the message found in Lamentations about God's faithfulness and mercy.

  30. Revive My Soul — Austin Stone Worship (2023) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The desire to awaken to newly given mercy closely echoes Jeremiah's affirmation that God's mercies are renewed each morning.

  31. Letting Go For Dear Life — Tenth Avenue North (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of divine mercy being renewed each morning closely paraphrases Jeremiah's affirmation of God's continually renewed compassion and faithfulness.

  32. Beautiful Mystery — Chris Llewellyn (2023) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The description of God's mercies as having no end closely paraphrases Lamentations' affirmation that his mercies never cease and are renewed continually.

  33. What I Needed (Live) — Chandler Moore (2024) Lamentations 3:22-23

    The tag draws on Lamentations' declaration that God's mercies are renewed each morning and that His faithfulness is great, mediated through the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness."

  34. You Are Our Home — John Van Deusen (2025) Lamentations 3:24

    The lyrics reflect the idea of the Lord being a portion and source of fulfillment, akin to the affirmation found in Lamentations about the Lord as the believer's hope.

  35. Menorah — Jackie Hill Perry & nobigdyl. (2025) Lamentations 3:24

    The lyric explicitly names this verse and recites its declaration that the Lord is the speaker’s portion, while criticizing the use of Scripture as content rather than lived obedience.

Lamentations 3 (King James Version)

1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.

6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

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

23 They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

25 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.

26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.

29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

31 For the LORD will not cast off for ever:

32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.

55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.