Lamentations 3:43
You have covered Yourself with anger, || And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
Literal Standard Version
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 been rebellious, || You have not forgiven.
44You have covered Yourself with a cloud, || So that prayer does not pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19But You have struck us in a place of dragons, || And cover us over with death-shade.
Psalms 83:15So You pursue them with Your whirlwind, || And trouble them with Your windstorm.
Lamentations 2:17YHWH has done that which He devised, || He has fulfilled His saying || That He commanded from the days of old, || He has broken down and has not pitied, || And causes an enemy to rejoice over you, || He lifted up the horn of your adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I call and cry out, || He has shut out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And My eye does not pity, nor do I spare, || I give to you according to your ways, || And your abominations are in your midst, || And you have known that [it is] I, YHWH, striking.
Ezekiel 9:10And I also, My eye does not pity, nor do I spare; I have put their way on 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 →