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God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:43

In 11 translations

BSB
You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.
KJV
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
WEB
“You have covered us with anger and pursued us. You have killed. You have not pitied.
ASV
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
LSV
You have covered Yourself with anger, || And pursue us; You have slain—You have not pitied.
YLT
Thou hast covered Thyself with anger, And dost pursue us; Thou hast slain — Thou hast not pitied.
DBY
Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.
DRC
Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.
GNV
Thou hast couered vs with wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slaine and not spared.
JPS
Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; Thou hast slain unsparingly.
LXXE
Samech. Thou hast visited us in wrath, and driven us away: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

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Original-language editions

WLC
סַכֹּ֤תָה בָאַף֙ וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ הָרַ֖גְתָּ לֹ֥א חָמָֽלְתָּ׃
LXX-Br
ΣΑΜΕΧ. Ἐπεσκέπασας ἐν ʼθυμῷ, καὶ ἀπεδίωξας ἡμᾶς, ἀπέκτεινας, οὐκ ἐφείσω.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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 3:66You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
  • Lamentations 2:1–2How 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. Without pity the Lord has…
  • Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
  • 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.”
  • Psalms 44:19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
  • 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 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.
  • 2 Chronicles 36:16–17But 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. So He brought up against them the king of the…

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