Adam Clarke, on Lam 3:22

“Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.”

“It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed - Being thus humbled, and seeing himself and his sinfulness in a proper point of view, he finds that God, instead of dealing with him in judgment, has dealt with him in mercy; and that though the affliction was excessive, yet it seas less than his iniquity deserved. If, indeed, any sinner be kept out of hell, it is because God's compassion faileth not.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.