Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered with af (anger), and pursued us; 1 Thou hast slain, Thou hast not pitied. 1
Orthodox Jewish 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 and have rebelled; 1 Atah lo salachta (Thou hast not pardoned, forgiven). 1
44Thou hast covered Thyself with an anan, 1 that our tefillah not pass through. 1
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Libenu (our heart) is not turned back, 1 neither have our steps departed from Thy way; 1
Psalms 83:15As the eish consumeth the forest, 1 and as the flame setteth ablaze harim; 1
Lamentations 2:17Hashem hath done that which He had devised; 1 He hath fulfilled His word 1 that He decreed in the yemai kedem; 1 He hath overthrown, and hath not pitied, 1 and He hath caused thine oyev to gloat over thee, 1 He hath exalted the keren of thine adversaries. 1
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and call out, 1 He shutteth out my tefillah. 1
Ezekiel 7:9And Mine eye shall not pity, neither will I spare; I will repay thee according to thy drakhim and thine to'avot that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am Hashem that striketh.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for Me, Mine eye shall show no pity, neither will I spare, but I will recompense their derech upon their rosh.
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 →