Lamentations 3:43
SAMECH. You have visited us in wrath, and driven us away: you have slain, you have not pitied.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We have sinned, we have transgressed; and you have not pardoned.
44You have veiled yourself with a cloud because of prayer, that I might be blind,
Cross References
Lamentations 2:17PHE. The Lord has done that which he purposed; he has accomplished his word, even the things which he commanded from the ancient days: he has thrown down, and has not spared: and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, he has exalted the horn of him that afflicted you.
Lamentations 3:8GIMEL. Yes, though I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9For thus says the Lord; Behold, the end is come.
Ezekiel 9:10Therefore my eye shall not spare, neither will I have any mercy: I have recompensed their ways upon their heads.
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 →