Lamentations 3:42
We, have trespassed and rebelled, Thou, hast not pardoned.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
In Context
41Let us lift up our heart, to the opened palms, to the Mighty One in the heavens;
43Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain—hast not spared;
Cross References
2 Kings 24:4moreover also, for the innocent blood that he had shed, so that he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,—which Yahweh was not willing to pardon.
Nehemiah 9:26But they murmured and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their back, and, thy prophets, they slew, who testified against them that they might turn them back unto thee,—and they wrought great insults.
Jeremiah 3:13Only, acknowledge thine iniquity, that against Yahweh thy God, hast thou transgressed,—and hast gone hither and thither unto foreigners under every green tree, and unto my voice, ye have not hearkened Declareth Yahweh.
Lamentations 1:18Righteous is Yahweh, for, against his bidding, had I rebelled,—Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men, have gone into exile.
Ezekiel 24:13In thine uncleanness, is lewdness; be- cause I purified thee and thou wast not purified, from thine uncleanness, thou shalt not be purified any more, until I have let mine indignation rest upon thee.
Daniel 9:8O Yahweh, to us, belongeth the shame of faces, to our kings, to our rulers, and to our fathers,—in that we have sinned against thee.
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 →