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New American Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:43
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“You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us;you have killed without compassion.
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
"You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
"You wrapped yourself in anger and chased us; you killed us without mercy.
You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain [without pity] and have not spared.
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.
Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and have not spared.
You have covered Yourself with angerAnd pursued us;You have killed and have not spared.
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
Anger is written all over you, as you pursue and slaughter us without showing pity.
"You have covered us with anger, pursued and slaughtered us without pity.
Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
You wrapped yourself with anger. You chased us. You killed us without mercy!
Thou hast covered us with thy anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
"You pursued us and killed us; your mercy was hidden by your anger,
You have covered yourself in anger and pursued us, you have slain and not shown mercy.
You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us; You have slain; You have not pitied.
Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, & persecuted vs, thou hast slayne vs without eny fauoure.
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
Thou hast couered with anger, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine, thou hast not pitied.
Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour.
SAMECH. Thou has visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou has slain, thou has not pitied.
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Sameth. Thou hilidist in stronge veniaunce, and smitidist vs; thou killidist, and sparidist not.
You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have slain, you have not pitied.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
ס (Samek)
You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy.You have covered Yourself with anger And pursued us; You have slain and not pitied.
"You have engulfed us with your anger, chased us down, and slaughtered us without mercy.
You have covered Yourself with anger and have followed us, killing without pity.
You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us, hast slain - hast not spared;
Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
"Thou hast wrapped thyself with anger and pursued us, slaying without pity;
Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain -- Thou hast not pitied.
"You lost your temper with us, holding nothing back. You chased us and cut us down without mercy. You wrapped yourself in thick blankets of clouds so no prayers could get through. You treated us like dirty dishwater, threw us out in the backyard of the nations.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
covered: Lamentations 2:1, Psalms 44:19
persecuted: Lamentations 3:66, Psalms 83:15
thou hast slain: Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:10
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast covered with anger,.... Either himself; not as a tender father, that cannot bear to see the affliction of a child; this does not suit with anger; but rather as one greatly displeased, in whose face anger appears, being covered with it; or who covers his face with it, that he may not be seen, withdrawing his gracious presence; or hast put anger as a wall between thee and us, as Jarchi: so that there was no coming nigh to him: or else it means covering his people with it; so the Targum,
"thou hast covered "us" with anger;''
denoting the largeness and abundance of afflictions upon them; they were as it were covered with them, as tokens of the divine displeasure; one wave and billow after another passing over them. Sanctius thinks the allusion is to the covering of the faces of condemned malefactors, as a token of their being guilty:
and persecuted us; the Targum adds, in captivity; that is, pursued and followed us with fresh instances of anger and resentment; to have men to be persecutors is bad, but to have God to be a persecutor is dreadful:
thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied; had suffered them to be stain by the sword of the enemy, and had shown no compassion to them;
:-; here, and in some following verses, the prophet, or the people he represents, are got to complaining again; though before he had checked himself for it; so hard it is under afflictions to put in practice what should be done by ourselves and others.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In verses 43-66, far from pardoning, God is still actively punishing His people.
Rather, âThou hast coveredâ Thyself âwith wrath and pursued (Lamentations 1:3 note) us.â The covering (here and in Lamentations 3:44) is that of clothing and enwrapping.
