43 “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us,
    (A)killing without pity;

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43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued(A) us;
    you have slain without pity.(B)

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21 In the dust of the streets
    (A)lie the young and the old;
(B)my young women and my young men
    have fallen by the sword;
(C)you have killed them in the day of your anger,
    slaughtering (D)without pity.

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21 “Young and old lie together
    in the dust of the streets;
my young men and young women
    have fallen by the sword.(A)
You have slain them in the day of your anger;
    you have slaughtered them without pity.(B)

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17 The Lord has done what he purposed;
    he has carried out (A)his word,
which he commanded (B)long ago;
    (C)he has thrown down (D)without pity;
(E)he has made the enemy rejoice over you
    and exalted the (F)might of your foes.

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17 The Lord has done what he planned;
    he has fulfilled(A) his word,
    which he decreed long ago.(B)
He has overthrown you without pity,(C)
    he has let the enemy gloat over you,(D)
    he has exalted the horn[a] of your foes.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.

66 You will pursue them[a] in anger and (A)destroy them
    from under (B)your heavens, O Lord.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
  2. Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord

66 Pursue(A) them in anger and destroy them
    from under the heavens of the Lord.

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The Lord Has Destroyed Without Pity

How the Lord in his anger
    has set the daughter of Zion (A)under a cloud!
(B)He has cast down from heaven to earth
    the splendor of Israel;
he has not remembered (C)his footstool
    in the day of his anger.

The Lord (D)has swallowed up (E)without mercy
    all the habitations of Jacob;
in his wrath (F)he has broken down
    the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
he has brought (G)down to the ground (H)in dishonor
    the kingdom (I)and its rulers.

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[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

Without pity(D) the Lord has swallowed(E) up
    all the dwellings of Jacob;
in his wrath he has torn down
    the strongholds(F) of Daughter Judah.
He has brought her kingdom and its princes
    down to the ground(G) in dishonor.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

15 so may you pursue them (A)with your tempest
    and terrify them with your hurricane!

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15 so pursue them with your tempest(A)
    and terrify them with your storm.(B)

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10 As for me, (A)my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity; (B)I will bring their deeds upon their heads.”

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10 So I will not look on them with pity(A) or spare them, but I will bring down on their own heads what they have done.(B)

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18 Therefore (A)I will act in wrath. (B)My eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. (C)And though they cry in my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”

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18 Therefore I will deal with them in anger;(A) I will not look on them with pity(B) or spare them. Although they shout in my ears, I will not listen(C) to them.”

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(A)And my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst. (B)Then you will know that I am the Lord, who strikes.

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I will not look on you with pity;
    I will not spare you.(A)
I will repay you for your conduct
    and for the detestable practices among you.(B)

“‘Then you will know that it is I the Lord who strikes you.(C)

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19 yet you have (A)broken us in the place of (B)jackals
    and covered us with (C)the shadow of death.

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19 But you crushed(A) us and made us a haunt for jackals;(B)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.(C)

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16 (A)But they kept mocking the messengers of God, (B)despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, (C)until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 (D)Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.

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16 But they mocked God’s messengers, despised his words and scoffed(A) at his prophets until the wrath(B) of the Lord was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.(C) 17 He brought up against them the king of the Babylonians,[a](D) who killed their young men with the sword in the sanctuary, and did not spare young men(E) or young women, the elderly or the infirm.(F) God gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans