Charles Spurgeon Commentary Lamentations 3:22

"[It is of] Jehovah`s lovingkindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not." — Lamentations 3:22 (ASV)

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 destroyed, you are still in the land of the living, — as we say "on praying ground and pleading terms with God." It is of Jehovah's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

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

Bad as our state is, we are not yet in hell; we are not yet beyond the reach of hope.

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

See where Jeremiah gets his comfort; he seems to say, "Bad as my case is, it might have been worse, for I might have been consumed, and I should have been consumed if the Lord's compassions had failed."

Ah, brothers and sisters, we too might have been in hell at this very moment! Amid the hottest flames of that hopeless place, we might have been enduring the wrath of God, but we are not there, and blessed be his name for that!

It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. He still has compassion on us; if he had not, he would have given us up altogether. But there is love in his heart, even while there is a frown on his brow, and while his hand is striking us, his heart is loving us still.