Lamentations 3:42
We have transgressed and have rebelled; 1 Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let us lift up levavenu (our heart) with our hands 1 unto El baShomayim. 1
43Thou hast covered with af (anger), and pursued us; 1 Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4And also for the dahm hanaki (innocent blood) that he shed; for he filled Yerushalayim with dahm naki; which Hashem would not pardon.
Nehemiah 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against Thee, and cast Thy torah behind their backs, and slaughtered Thy nevi'im which testified against them to turn them to Thee, and they wrought ne'atzot gedolot.
Jeremiah 3:13Only acknowledge thine avon (iniquity, guilt of wrongdoing), 1 that thou hast rebelled against Hashem your G-d, 1 and hast scattered thy favors to the zarim 1 under every green tree, 1 and ye have not obeyed My voice, saith Hashem. 1
Lamentations 1:18Tzaddik is Hashem; 1 for I have rebelled against His mouth; 1 hear, I pray you, kol amim (all people), 1 and behold my sorrow; 1 my betulot and my bochurim 1 are gone into captivity. 1
Ezekiel 24:13In thy tum'a is zimmah; because I have made thee tahor, and thou wast not tahor, thou shalt not be made tahor from thy tum'a any more, until I have caused My chemah (fury, wrath) to subside upon thee.
Daniel 9:8O Hashem, to us belongeth boshet hapanim, to our Melachim, to our Sarim (princes), and to our Avot, because we have sinned against Thee.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →