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Lamentations 3

Lam. 3:43 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast covered
cakak (Hebrew #5526)
a primitive root; properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect
KJV usage: cover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
Pronounce: saw-kak'
Origin: or sakak (Exod. 33:22) {saw-kak'}
with anger
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
, and persecuted
radaph (Hebrew #7291)
to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by)
KJV usage: chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute(-ion, -or), pursue(-r).
Pronounce: raw-daf'
Origin: a primitive root
us: thou hast slain
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
f, thou hast not pitied
chamal (Hebrew #2550)
to commiserate; by implication, to spare
KJV usage: have compassion, (have) pity, spare.
Pronounce: khaw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
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2 Chron. 36:17• 17And he brought up against them the king of the Chaldees, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and spared not young man nor maiden, old man nor him of hoary head: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chron. 36:17)

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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covered.
Lam. 2:1• 1How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger. (Lam. 2:1)
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Psa. 44:19• 19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. (Psa. 44:19)
persecuted.
Lam. 3:66• 66pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah. (Lam. 3:66)
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Psa. 83:15• 15So pursue them with thy tempest, and terrify them with thy whirlwind. (Psa. 83:15)
thou hast slain.
Lam. 2:2,17,21• 2The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought them down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
 17Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
 21The child and the old man 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, thou hast not spared. (Lam. 2:2,17,21)
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2 Chron. 36:16‑17• 16But they mocked at the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the fury of Jehovah rose against his people, and there was no remedy.
 17And he brought up against them the king of the Chaldees, and slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and spared not young man nor maiden, old man nor him of hoary head: he gave them all into his hand. (2 Chron. 36:16‑17)
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Ezek. 7:9• 9And mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will render unto thee according to thy ways, and thine abominations shall be in the midst of thee; and ye shall know that it is I, Jehovah, that smite. (Ezek. 7:9)
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Ezek. 8:18• 18And I also will deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity; and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. (Ezek. 8:18)
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Ezek. 9:10• 10And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: I will recompense their way upon their head. (Ezek. 9:10)
• {v.43-45} There are times when it does not become the saint to seek a deprecation of a chastening—where, if prayer were ignorantly so made, it were a mercy that it should not be heard. And so it was for Jerusalem then. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 3:43-66” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast covered thyself with anger, and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not spared.