Lamentations 3:43
Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
In Context
42We — we have transgressed and rebelled, Thou — Thou hast not forgiven.
44Thou hast covered Thyself with a cloud, So that prayer doth not pass through.
Cross References
Psalms 44:19But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
Psalms 83:15So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.
Lamentations 2:17Jehovah hath done that which He devised, He hath fulfilled His saying That He commanded from the days of old, He hath broken down and hath not pitied, And causeth an enemy to rejoice over thee, He lifted up the horn of thine adversaries.
Lamentations 3:8Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.
Ezekiel 7:9And not pity doth Mine eye, nor do I spare, According to thy ways unto thee I give, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I [am] Jehovah the smiter.
Ezekiel 9:10And I also, Mine eye doth not pity, nor do I spare; their way on their own head I have put.'
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 →