Lamentations 3:59
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Lamentations 3:59 in other translations
| BSB | You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause! |
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| WEB | LORD, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause. |
| ASV | O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. |
| YLT | Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause. |
| DARBY | Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. |
| BBE | O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause. |
| Webster | O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. |
What does Lamentations 3:59 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:58-60
58-60. Jeremiah cites God's gracious answers to his prayers as an encouragement to his fellow countrymen, to trust in Him. pleaded--(Psa 35:1; Mi 7:9).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:55-66
Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life. He silenced their fears, and quieted their spirits. Thou saidst, Fear not. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. And what are all…
Lamentations 3:59 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Lamentations 3:59
- Psalms 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
- Psalms 9:4
For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.
- Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.
- Psalms 26:1
A Psalm of David. Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.
- 1 Peter 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
- Psalms 35:1
A Psalm of David. Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
- Jeremiah 18:18-23
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words. Give heed to me, O Lord, and hearken to the voice of them that contend with me. Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. …
- Jeremiah 20:7-10
O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me. For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay. For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
- Jeremiah 37:1-21
And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words of the Lord, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah. And Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now unto the Lord our God for us. Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison. …
- Psalms 35:23
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
- Jeremiah 11:19-21
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered. But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause. Therefore thus saith the Lord of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the Lord, that thou die not by our hand:
- Jeremiah 15:10
Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.
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- Lamentations 3:58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
- Lamentations 3:59
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
- Lamentations 3:60
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Lamentations 3:59 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Tú has visto, oh Jehová, mi agravio; defiende mi causa. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu as vu, Éternel, le tort qu’on me fait; juge ma cause. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova, du hast meine Bedrückung gesehen; verhilf mir zu meinem Rechte |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Vidisti, Domine, iniquitatem illorum adversum me: judica judicium meum. |