Lamentations 3:43
You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.
Updated King James Version
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: you have not pardoned.
44You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms 83:15So persecute them with your tempest, and make them afraid with your storm.
Lamentations 2:17The LORD has done that which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused yours enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the horn of yours adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense you according to your ways and yours abominations that are in the midst of you; and all of you shall know that I am the LORD that strikes.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon 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 →