Lamentations 3:43 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴³Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Lamentations 3:43 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 3:66
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
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! …
Psalms 83:15
So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 42-54)

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; for great pains must be taken with a troubled spirit to bring it into temper. I. They confess the righ…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 43)

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.