Lamentations 3:59

59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

Lamentations 3:59 in Other Translations

59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

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

59 You have seen the wrong they have done to me, LORD . Be my judge, and prove me right.

59 God, you saw the wrongs heaped on me. Give me my day in court!

59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

59 Look at the wrong that has been done to me, O LORD. Give me a fair verdict.

59 Lord, You see the wrong done to me; judge my case.

59 Lord, you have seen the wrong things people have done to me. Stand up for me again!

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 you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

59 LORD, you have seen the wrong done to me. Uphold my cause!

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

61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 18:19-20
• 2. Psalms 35:23; Psalms 43:1