Lamentations 3:42 · KJV
“We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.”
— Lamentations 3:42
Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto God in the heavens.
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Lamentations 3 — Context
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto God in the heavens.
42We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that {our} prayer should not pass through.
Cross References
Jeremiah 5:7-9
How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by {them that are} no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.
Luke 15:18-19
I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
2 Kings 24:4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
Lamentations 5:16
The crown is fallen {from} our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! {The...: Heb. The crown of our head is fallen}
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD.
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where {are} they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Job 33:27-28
He looketh upon men, and {if any} say, I have sinned, and perverted {that which was} right, and it profited me not; {He...: or, He shall look upon men, and say}