Lamentations 3:43
SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42NUN. We have acted sinfully, and we have provoked to wrath. About this, you are relentless.
44SAMECH. You have set a cloud opposite you, lest our prayer pass through.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:17AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8GHIMEL. Yet even when I cry out and beg, he excludes my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And my eye will not be lenient, nor will I take pity. Instead, I will place your ways upon you, and your abominations will be in your midst. And you shall know that I am the Lord, who is striking.
Ezekiel 9:10Therefore, my eye will not be lenient, and I will not take pity. I will repay their own 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 →