Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated?
44Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through.
Cross References
Lamentations 2:17The Lorde hath fulfilled the thing that he was purposed to do, and perfourmed that he had deuised long ago: he hath destroyed and not spared, he hath caused thyne aduersarie to triumph ouer thee, and set vp the horne of thyne enemie.
Lamentations 3:8Though I crye and call pitiously, yet heareth he not my prayer.
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 →