Lamentations 3:59
Thou hast [now] seen, O Lord, the wrong I suffer: judge thou my cause.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58Thou didst plead, O Lord, the causes of my soul: thou didst [before this] redeem my life.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their plans against me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:4(9:5) For thou hast conducted my dispute and my cause; thou hast sat on the throne as a righteous judge.
Psalms 26:1“Of David.” Judge me, O Lord; for I have indeed walked in my integrity: and in the Lord have I trusted; I shall not slip.
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself, and awake to do me justice, my God and my Lord, unto my cause.
Jeremiah 11:19But I was like a sheep 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 its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may not be remembered any more.”
Jeremiah 15:10Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast born me, a man of contention and a man of strife to the whole land! I have not lent, nor have men lent to me: [yet] every one of them curseth me.
Jeremiah 20:7Thou didst persuade me, O Lord, and I was persuaded; thou laidst thy [hand] strongly on me, and didst prevail: I am laughed at all the time, 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 →