Lamentations 3:59
O LORD, Thou hast seen my wrong; judge Thou my cause.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58O Lord, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; Thou hast redeemed my life.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:4(9-5) For Thou hast maintained my right and my cause; Thou sattest upon the throne as the righteous Judge.
Psalms 26:1A Psalm of David. Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in mine integrity, and I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Psalms 35:23Rouse Thee, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a docile lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me: '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.'
Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jeremiah 20:7O LORD, Thou hast enticed me, and I was enticed, Thou hast overcome me, and hast prevailed; I am become a laughing-stock all the day, every one mocketh 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 →