Lamentations 3 · Verse 43

Lamentations 3:43

Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3:43, King James Version

Lamentations 3:43 in other translations

BSBYou have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
WEB“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
ASVThou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
YLTThou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain--Thou hast not pitied.
DARBYThou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
BBECovering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
WebsterThou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

What does Lamentations 3:43 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:43-45
43-45. 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.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54

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.

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Lamentations 3:43 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

סַכֹּ֤תָהsa.Ko.tahyou have covered yourselfH5526
בָאַף֙va.'Afwith <the> angerH639
וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּva.tir.de.Fe.nuand you have pursued usH7291
הָרַ֖גְתָּha.Rag.tayou have killedH2026
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808
חָמָֽלְתָּ\׃cha.Mal.tayou have sparedH2550

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 3:43

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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! The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

  • Lamentations 3:66

    Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

  • Psalms 83:15

    So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Psalms 44:19

    Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • 2 Chronicles 36:16-17

    But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

  • Ezekiel 9:10

    And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
covered.
2:1; Ps 44:19
persecuted.
66; Ps 83:15
thou hast slain.
2:2,17,21; 2Ch 36:16,17; Eze 7:9; 8:18; 9:10

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Context

  • Lamentations 3:42

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

  • Lamentations 3:43

    Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

  • Lamentations 3:44

    Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

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Lamentations 3:43 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Desplegaste la ira, y nos perseguiste; mataste, no perdonaste.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Tu t’es enveloppé de colère et tu nous as poursuivis; tu as tué, tu n’as point épargné.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du hast dich in Zorn gehüllt und hast uns verfolgt; du hast hingemordet ohne Schonung.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Operuisti in furore, et percussisti nos; occidisti, nec pepercisti.