yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.
Lamentations 3:43 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: Thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have covered Yourself with wrath and pursued and afflicted us; You have slain without pity. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. Common English Bible You wrapped yourself up in wrath and hunted us; you killed, showing no compassion. Catholic Public Domain Version SAMECH. You have covered us in your fury, and you have struck us. You have killed, and have not spared. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath and hast struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared. |
yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals and covered us with deep darkness.
You have fed them with the bread of tears and given them tears to drink in full measure.
The Lord has done what he purposed; he has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the might of your foes.
The young and the old are lying on the ground in the streets; my young women and my young men have fallen by the sword; in the day of your anger you have killed them, slaughtering without mercy.
My eye will not spare; I will have no pity. I will punish you according to your ways while your abominations are among you. Then you shall know that it is I the Lord who strike.
Therefore I will act in wrath; my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, and though they cry in my hearing with a loud voice, I will not listen to them.”
As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will bring down their deeds upon their heads.”