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Lamentations 3:43 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 3 · verse 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 context
41Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.
45Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- persecutedrâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- coveredçâkakproperly, to entwine as ascreenH5526 →
- angerʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
- slainhâragto smite with deadly intentH2026 →
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It is easier to chide ourselves for complaining than to chide ourselves out of it. The prophet had owned that a living man should not complain, as if he checked himself for his complaints in the former part of the chapter; and yet here the clouds return after the rain and the wound bleeds afresh;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 42-54