43 You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain and not pitied.

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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 “Young(A) and old lie
On the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the (B)sword;
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered and not pitied.

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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 (A)purposed;
He has fulfilled His word
Which He commanded in days of old.
He has thrown down and has not pitied,
And He has caused an enemy to (B)rejoice over you;
He has exalted the [a]horn of your adversaries.

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  1. Lamentations 2:17 Strength

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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  1. Lamentations 2:17 Horn here symbolizes strength.

66 In Your anger,
Pursue and destroy them
(A)From under the heavens of the (B)Lord.

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

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God’s Anger with Jerusalem

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.

The Lord has swallowed up and has (E)not pitied
All the dwelling places of Jacob.
He has thrown down in His wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
(F)He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

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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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  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 pursue them with Your tempest,
And frighten them with Your storm.

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

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10 And as for Me also, My (A)eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but (B)I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

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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 (A)Therefore I also will act in fury. My (B)eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they (C)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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‘My eye will not spare,
Nor will I have pity;
I will [a]repay you according to your ways,
And your abominations will be in your midst.
Then you shall know that I am the Lord who strikes.

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  1. Ezekiel 7:9 Lit. give

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 But You have severely broken us in (A)the place of jackals,
And covered us (B)with 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 But (A)they mocked the messengers of God, (B)despised His words, and (C)scoffed at His prophets, until the (D)wrath of the Lord arose against His people, till there was no remedy.

17 (E)Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans, who (F)killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, on the aged or the weak; 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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  1. 2 Chronicles 36:17 Or Chaldeans