Lamentations 3:43

⁴¹ Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

⁴² We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

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.

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
The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
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Lamentations 2:17
The 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 thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
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Lamentations 2:1–2
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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Lamentations 3:66
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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Psalms 83:15
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.
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Ezekiel 7:9
And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense thee according to thy ways and thine abominations that are in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that I am the LORD that smiteth.
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Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.
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Psalms 44:19
Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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