Lamentations 3:43

Thou coveredest in strong vengeance, and smitedest us (or and hast struck us); thou killedest (us), and sparedest (us) not.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

In Context

42We have done wickedly, and have stirred thee to wrath; therefore thou art not able to be prayed (to).

44Thou settedest a cloud to thee, that prayer pass not. (Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that prayers cannot pass through.)

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Cross References

Psalms 44:19For thou hast made us low in the place of torment; and the shadow of death covered us. (Though thou hast made us low, or hast humbled us, in the place of torment; and hast covered us with the shadow of death.)

Psalms 83:15So thou shalt pursue them in thy tempest; and thou shalt trouble them in thine ire. (so shalt thou pursue after them with thy tempest; and thou shalt made them afraid with thy storm winds.)

Lamentations 2:17The Lord did those things which he thought, he [ful] filled his word which he had commanded from [the] eld days; he destroyed, and spared not; and made glad the enemy on thee (or and let the enemy rejoice over thee); and enhanced the horn of thine enemies.

Lamentations 3:8But and when I cry and pray, he hath excluded my prayer.

Ezekiel 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither I shall do mercy; but I shall put on thee thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know, that I am the Lord smiting. (And my eye shall not spare thee, nor shall I have any mercy on thee; but I shall put upon thee thy ways, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know, that I am the Lord who striketh.)

Ezekiel 9:10Therefore and mine eye shall not spare, neither I shall do mercy; I shall yield the way of them on the head of them. (And so my eye shall not spare them, nor shall I have any mercy on them; I shall yield their ways back upon their own heads.)

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 →

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