English Standard Version
Lamentations 3:43
43"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy.
Context of Lamentations 3:43
41Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven: 42"We have transgressed and rebelled, and you have not forgiven. "You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; 44you have wrapped yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through. 45You have made us scum and garbage 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 in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
- Psalms 44:19yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
- Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O Lord."
- Psalms 83:15so may you pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your hurricane!
- Lamentations 2:2The Lord has swallowed up without mercy all the habitations of Jacob; in his wrath he has broken down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought down to the ground in dishonor the kingdom and its rulers.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.
- Ezekiel 7:9And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.
- Ezekiel 8:18Therefore I will act in wrath. My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them."
- Ezekiel 9:10As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; I will bring their deeds upon their 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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