Lamentations 3:22 [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Ver. 22. It is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed.] That we are yet on this side hell. This sentence was much in the mouth of that famous Maria Aegyptiaca, and should be in all our minds and mouths for a lenitive.
Because his compassions fail a not.] Or, Are not spent, wasted, but, as the oil in the cruse, as the spring ever runneth, the sun ever shineth, &c. This should ever shine in our hearts as the sun doth in the firmament.
a Exarescunt torrentes, metalla exhauriuntur, flumina deficiunt, prata item cum fructibus, &c.