Tafsiran Ratapan 3:22: Tze'enah Ure'enah & Rashi

“Kindness” [3:22]. The kindness of the Holy One and his compassion has not disappeared.

By the grace Adonoy we have not perished. And the entire section until, “Why should [a living man] bemoan, etc.”²⁰Below, verse 39.

We have not perished. תָמְנוּ is] the same as תַמּוּ [ended].²¹I.e., in ‘the third person’ meaning ‘they have not perished.’ But according to Rashi’s second explanation, תמנו is in the ‘second person’ meaning ‘we have not perished.’ (Sifsei Chachomim) And some explain כִּי לֹא תָמְנוּ as in, “Will we ever stop תַּמְנוּ dying?”²²Bamidbar 17:28. It is the kindnesses of God that we were not annihilated, that we have not perished because of our sins.