Lamentations 3:58
Thou maintainest my cause, O Lord; thou redeemest my life!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
In Context
57Be near to me, when I call upon thee! Say, “Fear not!”
59Thou, O Jehovah, seest the wrong done to me; Maintain thou my cause!
Cross References
Job 35:14Much less when thou sayest thou canst not see him: Justice is with him,—only wait thou for him!
Psalms 34:22The LORD redeemeth the life of his servants, And none that put their trust in him will suffer for it.
Psalms 103:4Who redeemeth thy life from the grave; Who crowneth thee with loving-kindness and tender mercies;
Jeremiah 11:20But, O Jehovah of hosts, the righteous judge, Who triest the reins and the heart, I shall see thy vengeance on them, For to thee have I revealed my cause!
Jeremiah 38:13And they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained 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 →