Lamentations 3:43
Good News Translation
"You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger,

New Revised Standard Version
You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;

Contemporary English Version
Anger is written all over you, as you pursue and slaughter us without showing pity.

New American Bible
You wrapped yourself in wrath and pursued us, killing without pity;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.

covered

Lamentations 2:1 Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Psalm 44:19 And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.

persecuted

Lamentations 3:66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Psalm 83:15 So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

thou hast slain

Lamentations 2:2,17,21 Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:16,17 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused the prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, and there was no remedy. . . .

Ezekiel 7:9 And my eye shall not spare, neither will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations shall be in the midst of thee: and you shall know that I am the Lord that strike.

Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.

Ezekiel 9:10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head.

Context
God's Justice
42Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to wrath: therefore thou art inexorable. 43Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.44Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our prayer may not pass through.…
Cross References
Psalm 83:15
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

Lamentations 2:2
Beth. The Lord hath cast down headlong, and hath not spared, all that was beautiful in Jacob: he hath destroyed in his wrath the strong holds of the virgin of Juda, and brought them down to the ground: he hath made the kingdom unclean, and the princes thereof.

Lamentations 2:17
Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.

Lamentations 2:21
Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

Lamentations 3:66
Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.

Lamentations 3:42
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