Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Webster 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: thou hast not pardoned.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.
Psalms 83:15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
Lamentations 2:17The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thy enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And my eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thy abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, my 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 →