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

41We lift up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven; 42We have transgressed and rebelled, You have not pardoned. You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared. 44You have covered Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. 45You have made us mere offscouring and refuse In the midst of the peoples.

Lamentations 3:43 word by word

סַכֹּ֤תָה בָאַף֙ וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ לֹ֥א חָמָֽלְתָּ׃Read the interlinear

• You have coveredסָכַךְsâkak ώâkak · to coverH5526
• angerאַף'aph · face: angerH639
• pursuedרָדַףrâdaph · to pursueH7291
• You have slainהָרַגhârag · to killH2026
• have not sparedחָמַלchâmal · to spareH2550

Cross-references for Lamentations 3:43

• Lamentations 2:1How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.
• Psalms 44:19Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals And covered us with the shadow of death.
• Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord!
• Psalms 83:15So pursue them with Your tempest And terrify them with Your storm.
• Lamentations 2:2The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
• 2 Chronicles 36:16but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against His people, until there was no remedy.
• Ezekiel 7:9My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.
• Ezekiel 8:18Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”
• Ezekiel 9:10But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct 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

• Chain
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• Lamentations, Book of
• Poetry, Hebrew

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