Ekhah 3:59

59 Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong; uphold my cause.

Ekhah 3:59 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:59

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong
Or, "my perverseness" {w}; not that he or they had been guilty of; but the wrong that was done to him and them by their enemies; how perverse and ill natured they had been to them; how badly they had used them; what injuries they had done them; none of which escaped the omniscience of God, to which the appeal is made; and upon this follows a petition: judge thou my cause;
the present one; as thou hast pleaded and judged many already, do me justice, right my wrongs, an, save me from mine enemies; and let it appear to all the world my cause is just, and they are in the wrong.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (yttwe) "perversitatem", Pagninus, Montanus; "quae exercetur, vel exercebatur in me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Ekhah 3:59 In-Context

57 Thou drewest near on the Yom that I called upon Thee; Thou saidst, Fear not.

58 Adonoi, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my nefesh; Thou hast redeemed my life.

59 Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong; uphold my cause.

60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their machsh’vot against me.

61 Thou hast heard their reproach, Hashem, and all their machsh’vot against me;