Christian Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:43
43“You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us; you have killed without compassion.
Lamentations 3:43 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
- New International Version (NIV)“You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.
Context of Lamentations 3:43
41Let’s lift up our hearts and our 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 compassion. 44You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through. 45You have made us disgusting filth among the peoples.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:43 word by word
סַכֹּ֤תָה בָאַף֙ וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ לֹ֥א חָמָֽלְתָּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:43
- Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has overshadowed Daughter Zion with his anger! He has thrown down Israel’s glory from heaven to earth. He did not acknowledge his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Psalms 44:19But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them under your heavens.
- Psalms 83:15so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.
- Lamentations 2:2Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against his people that there was no remedy.
- Ezekiel 7:9I will not look on you with pity or spare you. I will punish you for your ways and for your detestable practices within you. Then you will know that it is I, the Lord, who strikes.
- Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, I will not listen to them.”
- Ezekiel 9:10But as for me, I will not show pity or spare them. I will bring their conduct down on their own heads.”
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:43
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 43In verses 43-66, far from pardoning, God is still actively punishing His people. Rather, “Thou hast covered” Thyself “with wrath and pursued (Lamentations 1:3 note) us.” The covering (here and in Lamentations 3:44) is that of clothing and enwrapping.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 42-54 The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-66In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 43-4543-45. covered--namely, thyself (so La 3:44), so as not to see and pity our calamities, for even the most cruel in seeing a sad spectacle are moved to pity. Compare as to God "hiding His face," Psa 10:11; 22:25.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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