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Ratapan 3:43

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Anger of God, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Persecution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Pity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wrath (Anger);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Samuel;  

Parallel Translations

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Contextual Overview

42 We haue ben dissemblers and haue offended, wylt thou therefore not be intreated? 43 Thou hast couered vs in thy wrath, and persecuted vs: thou hast slayne vs without any fauour. 44 Thou hast hid thy selfe in a cloude, that our prayer should not go through. 45 Thou hast made vs outcastes, and to be despised among the people. 46 All our enemies gape vpon vs. 47 Feare and pit is come vpon vs, yea deceipt and destruction. 48 Whole riuers of water gushe out of mine eyes for the hurt of my people: 49 Myne eyes runne and cannot ceasse, for there is no rest: 50 O Lorde, when wylt thou looke downe from heauen and consider? 51 Mine eyes breaketh my heart, because of all the daughters of my citie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

covered: Lamentations 2:1, Psalms 44:19

persecuted: Lamentations 3:66, Psalms 83:15

thou hast slain: Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 2:21, 2 Chronicles 36:16, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Ezekiel 7:9, Ezekiel 8:18, Ezekiel 9:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast covered with anger,.... Either himself; not as a tender father, that cannot bear to see the affliction of a child; this does not suit with anger; but rather as one greatly displeased, in whose face anger appears, being covered with it; or who covers his face with it, that he may not be seen, withdrawing his gracious presence; or hast put anger as a wall between thee and us, as Jarchi: so that there was no coming nigh to him: or else it means covering his people with it; so the Targum,

"thou hast covered "us" with anger;''

denoting the largeness and abundance of afflictions upon them; they were as it were covered with them, as tokens of the divine displeasure; one wave and billow after another passing over them. Sanctius thinks the allusion is to the covering of the faces of condemned malefactors, as a token of their being guilty:

and persecuted us; the Targum adds, in captivity; that is, pursued and followed us with fresh instances of anger and resentment; to have men to be persecutors is bad, but to have God to be a persecutor is dreadful:

thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied; had suffered them to be stain by the sword of the enemy, and had shown no compassion to them;

:-; here, and in some following verses, the prophet, or the people he represents, are got to complaining again; though before he had checked himself for it; so hard it is under afflictions to put in practice what should be done by ourselves and others.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In verses 43-66, far from pardoning, God is still actively punishing His people.

Rather, “Thou hast covered” Thyself “with wrath and pursued (Lamentations 1:3 note) us.” The covering (here and in Lamentations 3:44) is that of clothing and enwrapping.


 
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