Lamentations 3:43
Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.
44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19And our heart hath not turned back : neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
Psalms 83:15As fire which burneth the wood: and as a flame burning mountains:
Lamentations 2:17Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath shut out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike.
Ezekiel 9:10Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite 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 →