Lamentations 3:58
You have pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, || You have redeemed my life.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
In Context
57You have drawn near in the day I call You, You have said, Do not fear.
59You have seen, O YHWH, my overthrow, || Judge my cause.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16the Messenger who is redeeming me from all evil blesses the youths, and my name is called on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and they increase into a multitude in the midst of the land.”
Job 35:14Indeed, though you say you do not behold Him, || Judgment [is] before Him, and stays for Him.
Psalms 34:22YHWH redeems the soul of His servants, || And none trusting in Him are desolate!
Psalms 103:4Who is redeeming your life from destruction, || Who is crowning you [with] kindness and mercies,
Jeremiah 11:20And O YHWH of Hosts, judging righteousness, || Trying reins and heart, || I see Your vengeance against them, || For I have revealed my cause to You.
Jeremiah 38:13and they draw Jeremiah out with cords, and bring him up out of the pit, and Jeremiah dwells in the court of the prison.
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 →