Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We have transgressed and have rebelled; Thou hast not pardoned.
44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19(44-20) Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15(83-16) So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.
Lamentations 2:17The LORD hath done that which He devised; He hath performed His word that He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly; and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will bring upon thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I the LORD do smite.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for Me also, Mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring 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 →