Lamentations 3:22 (BSB)

Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

From Lamentations 3. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Lamentations 3:22

• John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Lamentations 3:22: The first clause may be explained in two ways: The view commonly taken is, that it ought to be ascribed to God’s mercy that the faithful have not been often consumed. Hence a very useful doctrine is elicited — that God succors his own people, lest they should wholly perish.
• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Lamentations 3:21-36: Here the clouds begin to disperse and the sky to clear up; the complaint was very melancholy in the former part of the chapter, and yet here the tune is altered and the mourners in Zion begin to look a little pleasant. But for hope, the heart would break.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Lamentations 3:22: 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 dungeon; and of the people of the Jews, who though many of them perished by the sword, famine, and pestilence, yet God did not make a full end of them, according to his gracious promise, Jer 30:11; but left...
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Lamentations 3:22: [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. (i) Considering the wickedness of man it is a marvel that any remains alive: but only that God for his own mercies sake and for his promise will ever have his Church remain, though they are never so few in number, .