Lamentations 3:43 “You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed wit…”

Lamentations 3:43

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.

American Standard Version

Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.

Darby Translation

Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.

Young's Literal Translation

Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.

Bible in Basic English

Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;

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Cross references

“covered”

Psalm 44:19 Lamentations 2:1

Psalm 44:19 · BSB

But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.

Lamentations 2:1 · BSB

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

“persecuted”

Lamentations 3:66 Psalm 83:15

Lamentations 3:66 · BSB

You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

Psalm 83:15 · BSB

so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.

“thou hast slain”

Lamentations 2:17 Lamentations 2:21 Ezekiel 7:9 Ezekiel 8:18 Ezekiel 9:10 Lamentations 2:2

Lamentations 2:17 · BSB

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 2:21 · BSB

Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.

Ezekiel 7:9 · BSB

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

Ezekiel 8:18 · BSB

Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. Although they shout loudly in My ears, I will not listen to them.”

Ezekiel 9:10 · BSB

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

Lamentations 2:2 · BSB

Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

44You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

Read Lamentations 3