Lamentations 3:43
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.”
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“You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain--Thou hast not pitied.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Lamentations 3:43 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
- Psalms 80:5You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
- Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
- Lamentations 2:1How 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.
- Lamentations 2:17The 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 2:21Both 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.
- Lamentations 3:8Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Lamentations 3:66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
- Ezekiel 7:9I 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 8:18Therefore 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 9:10But 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.”
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