Lamentations 3:42
Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the Lord in the heavens.
43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased.
Nehemiah 9:26But they provoked thee to wrath, and departed from thee, and threw thy law behind their backs: and they killed thy prophets, who admonished them earnestly to return to thee : and they were guilty of great blasphemies.
Jeremiah 3:13But yet acknowledge thy iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God: and thou hast scattered thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and hast not heard my voice, saith the Lord.
Lamentations 1:18Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity.
Ezekiel 24:13Thy uncleanness is execrable: be- cause I desired to cleanse thee, and thou art not cleansed from thy filthiness: neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause my indignation to rest in thee.
Daniel 9:8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our princes, and to our fathers that have sinned.
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 →