Lamentations 3:43
41 Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:
42 “We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.
45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
- KJV
- Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- WEB
- “You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
- ASV
- Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- DARBY
- Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
- BLB
- You have covered in anger and pursued us; You have killed; You have not pitied.
- ÅB
- Du innhyllet deg i vrede og forfulgte oss; du slo ihjel, du sparte ikke.
- OTB
- Du har omhyllet deg med vrede og forfulgt oss; du har drept uten nåde.
- B1930
- Du innhyllet dig i vrede og forfulgte oss; du slo ihjel, du sparte ikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Lamentations 2:21
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
Read in contextLamentations 2:17
The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.
Read in contextLamentations 2:1–2
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
Read in contextLamentations 3:66
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 83:15
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
Read in contextEzekiel 7:9
I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.
Read in contextEzekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”
Read in contextPsalms 44:19
But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
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