Lamentations 3:43 BSB

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
סַכֹּ֤תָה	sa.Ko.tah	you have covered yourself	H5526 →
בָאַף֙	va.'Af	with <the> anger	H639 →
וַֽתִּרְדְּפֵ֔נוּ	va.tir.de.Fe.nu	and you have pursued us	H7291 →
הָרַ֖גְתָּ	ha.Rag.ta	you have killed	H2026 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
חָמָֽלְתָּ׃	cha.Mal.ta	you have spared	H2550 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Lamentations 2:17
The 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…
leads to
- Ezekiel 5:11
  Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon…
- Psalms 89:42
  You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
- Lamentations 1:5
  Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
Through
Lamentations 2:21
Both 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…
leads to
- Zechariah 11:6
  For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king,…
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
  So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God…
Through
Psalms 83:15
so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.
leads to
- Job 9:17
  For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause.
- Psalms 50:3
  Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Through
Lamentations 3:66
You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.
leads to
- Psalms 8:3
  When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place—

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

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 2:2Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.Psalms 83:15so pursue them with Your tempest, and terrify them with Your storm.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.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.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.”

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