Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered [us] with thy anger, and made pursuit after us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We have indeed transgressed and rebelled: thou hast truly not pardoned.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that no prayer should pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19(44:20) Even when thou didst crush us in the abode of monsters, and cover us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15(83:16) So pursue them with thy storm, and with thy whirlwind do thou terrify them.
Lamentations 2:17The Lord hath done what he had resolved; he hath accomplished his word which he had ordained already in the days of old; he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied; and he hath caused to rejoice over thee thy enemy, he hath raised on high the horn of thy adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry aloud and make entreaty, he shutteth out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And my eye shall not show pity, and I will not spare: according to thy ways will I lay [evil] on thee, and thy abominations shall come in the midst of thee: and ye shall know that I am the Lord that smiteth.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, my eye shall not look with pity, and I will not spare; but I will bring their course upon their own 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 →