Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.
43Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.
Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them again to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou have transgressed against LORD thy God, and have scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, says LORD.
Lamentations 1:18LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
Ezekiel 24:13In thy filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed thee and thou were not cleansed, thou shall not be cleansed from thy filthiness any more, till I have caused my wrath toward thee to rest.
Daniel 9:8O LORD, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →