Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast hidden thyself in anger, and hast pursued us; thou hast slain and hast not spared;
Noyes Bible
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; we have rebelled; thou hast not forgiven!
44Thou hast hidden thyself in a cloud, that our prayer may not pass through;
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.
Psalms 83:15So pursue them with thy tempest, And terrify them with thy storm!
Lamentations 2:17Jehovah hath accomplished that which he had devised; He hath fulfilled his word, which he had commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down and hath not pitied; He hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Yea, when I cry and call aloud, he shutteth out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; I will recompense thee according to thy ways, And thine abominations shall come upon thee; And ye shall know that I, Jehovah, smite you.
Ezekiel 9:10Therefore mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity. Their way will I recompense 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 →