Lamentations 3:59

59 You have seen the wrong done to me, ¹O Lord; judge my cause.

Lamentations 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.

Lamentations 3:59 In-Context

57 You came near when I called on you; you said, ‘Do not fear! ’

58 “You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.

59 You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause.

60 You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

61 “You have heard their taunts, O Lord, all their plots against me.

Cross References

• 1. 3:59 Ps. 35:22, 23