Lamentations 3:43
Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.
44Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19that thou have greatly broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy storm.
Lamentations 2:17LORD has done that which he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee. He has exalted the horn of thine advers
Lamentations 3:8Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity. I will bring upon thee according to thy ways. And thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee. And ye shall know that I, LORD, do smite.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, my eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring their way upon their head.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →