Verses 22-42 are the center of the present poem, as it also holds the central place in the whole series of the Lamentations. In them the riches of …

It is of the Lord’s mercies. —It is, perhaps, part of the elaborate art of this poem that Lamentations 3:22-42, which for…

It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

Hear that, troubled heart; you are not yet …

The first clause can be explained in two ways. The view commonly taken is that it should be ascribed to God’s mercy that the faithful have not ofte…

[It is of] the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed
It was true of the prophet, that he died not in prison, or in the dunge…

Having stated his distress and temptation, the prophet shows how he was raised above it. Bad as things are, it is owing to the mercy of God that th…

Here he sets forth the experience of divine mercy in the present.

First is the recognition of this: the mercies of the Lord,…