Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We haue sinned, and haue rebelled, therefore thou hast not spared.
44Thou hast couered thy selfe with a cloude, that our prayer should not passe through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraide with thy storme.
Lamentations 2:17The Lord hath done that which he had purposed: he hath fulfilled his worde that he had determined of old time: he hath throwen downe, and not spared: hee hath caused thine enemie to reioyce ouer thee, and set vp the horne of thine aduersaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and showte, hee shutteth out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9Neither shall mine eie spare thee, neither will I haue pitie, but I will laye vpon thee according to thy wayes, and thine abominations shalbe in the middes of thee, and ye shall knowe that I am the Lord that smiteth.
Ezekiel 9:10As touching me also, mine eye shall not spare them, neither will I haue pitie, but will recompence their wayes vpon their heades.
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 →