Lamentations 3:43
You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you killed without sparing.
New Heart English 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, and you have not forgiven.SAMEKH
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals,and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15so pursue them with your tempest,and terrify them with your storm.
Lamentations 2:17The Lord has done that which he purposed, he has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.He has thrown down, and has not pitied.He has caused the enemy to gloat over you and exalted the horn of your adversaries.TZADE
Lamentations 3:8Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9My eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will bring on you according to your ways; and your abominations shall be in the midst of you; and you shall know that I, the Lord, do strike.
Ezekiel 9:10As for me also, my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will bring their way on their head."
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 →