Lamentations 3:59
O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.
60You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:4\9:3\When my haters are turned back, they will be broken and overcome before you.
Psalms 26:1Of David. O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.
Psalms 35:23Be awake, O Lord, be moved to take up my cause, my God and my Lord.
Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
Jeremiah 15:10Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.
Jeremiah 20:7O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:56-66
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. ( b. c. 588.) 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord , out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O Lord , thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their… Read the whole commentary →