Lamentations 3:42
“We have sinned and rebelled against you, and you have not forgiven us.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41We should pray [IDM] sincerely and lift up our arms toward God in heaven, and say,
43You have surrounded us with your anger and pursued us; you have slaughtered us without pitying us.
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4Manasseh had even caused many innocent people in Jerusalem to be killed, and Yahweh would not forgive that.
Nehemiah 9:26“But they disobeyed you and rebelled against you. They ◄turned their backs on/rejected► your laws. They killed the prophets who warned them that they should return to you. They badly insulted you.
Jeremiah 3:13But you must admit/say that you are guilty, and that you have rebelled against me, Yahweh, your God, that you have worshiped idols under big trees everywhere, and you have not obeyed me. You have turned away from me.
Lamentations 1:18But what Yahweh has done to us is fair, because we have rebelled against obeying the commands that he gave us. You people everywhere, listen to us; look and see that we are suffering greatly. We had many sons and daughters, but they have been captured and forced to go to distant countries.
Ezekiel 24:13The rust in the pot represents your immoral behavior. I tried to cleanse you from your wicked behavior, but you did not allow me to do that. So you will not be cleansed from the guilt of your sin until I have punished you and I am no longer angry.
Daniel 9:8Lord, we and our kings and our other rulers and our other ancestors have done very shameful things and have sinned against you.
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 →