Lamentations 3:43

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 us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens. 42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared. 44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that prayer should not pass through. 45Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

Lamentations 3:43 word by word

סַכֹּ֤תָה בָאַף֙ וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ לֹ֥א חָמָֽלְתָּ׃Read the interlinear

• angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• pursuedרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• slainהָרַגhârag · to killH2026
• sparedחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:43

• Lamentations 2:1How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger.
• Psalms 44:19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
• Lamentations 3:66pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.
• Psalms 83:15So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind.
• Lamentations 2:2The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought [them] down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
• 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.
• Ezekiel 7:9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite.
• Ezekiel 8:18And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.
• Ezekiel 9:10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense their way upon their head.

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

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• Lamentations, Book of
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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