Lamentations 3:43
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.
44Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19\44:18\Our hearts have not gone back, and our steps have not been turned out of your way;
Psalms 83:15\83:14\As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,
Lamentations 2:17The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.
Lamentations 3:8Even when I send up a cry for help, he keeps my prayer shut out.
Ezekiel 7:9My eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity: I will send on you the punishment of your ways, and your disgusting works will be among you; and you will see that I am the Lord who gives punishment.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.
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 →