Lamentations 3:42
“We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in the heavens: 1
43You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us, you have killed and you have not spared. 1
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4and also because of the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood. Yahweh was not willing to pardon that.
Nehemiah 9:26Then they became disobedient and they rebelled against you. They threw your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had warned them to turn back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
Jeremiah 3:13Acknowledge your iniquity, for you have transgressed against Yahweh your God; 1 you have shared your ways with strangers under every leafy tree! 1 For you have not listened to my voice!—this is Yahweh's declaration. 1
Lamentations 1:18Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. 1 Hear, all you peoples, and see my sorrow. 1 My virgins and my vigorous men have gone into captivity. 1
Ezekiel 24:13Your shameful behavior is in your uncleanness. Because I tried to cleanse you but still you would not be cleansed from your uncleanness, you will not be cleansed anymore until I have satisfied my fury upon you.
Daniel 9:8To us, Yahweh, belongs shame on our faces—to our kings, to our leaders, and to our ancestors—because we 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 →