Lamentations 3:59

59 O LORD, You have ¹seen my oppression; ²Judge my case.

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.

---

FOOTNOTES:

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

Lamentations 3:59 In-Context

57 You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not fear!"

58 O Lord , You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.

59 O LORD , You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.

60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD , All their schemes against me.

Cross References

• 1. Jeremiah 18:19, 20
• 2. Psalms 26:1; Psalms 43:1