Lamentations 3:62
The speeches of these that rise up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
In Context
61Thou hast heard their reviling, O Lord, all their plans against me,
63Oh look upon their sitting down, and their rising up: I am their [jeering] song.
Cross References
Psalms 59:12(59:13) The sin of their mouth is the word of their lips: let them be caught through their pride, because of the cursing and lying which they relate.
Jeremiah 18:18And they said, Come, and let us contrive devices against Jeremiah; for the law will not be lost 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 listen to any of his words.
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 →