Lamentations 3:59
Thou, O Jehovah, seest the wrong done to me; Maintain thou my cause!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58Thou maintainest my cause, O Lord; thou redeemest my life!
60Thou seest all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:4For thou dost defend my right and my cause; Thou sittest upon the throne, a righteous judge.
Psalms 26:1“A psalm of David.” Be thou my judge, O LORD! for I have walked in uprightness. I have put my trust in the LORD, therefore shall I not fall.
Psalms 35:23Arouse thyself; awake for my defence! My God and my Lord, awake to my cause!
Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a tame lamb, that is led to the slaughter, And knew not that they had formed plots against me, [[saying,]] “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, Let us cut him off from the land of the living, That his name may no more be remembered!”
Jeremiah 15:10Alas for me, my mother, that thou hast borne me, To live in strife and contention with all the land! I have neither borrowed nor lent money, Yet doth every one curse me!
Jeremiah 20:7Thou didst persuade me, O Jehovah, and I was persuaded; Thou wast stronger than I, and didst prevail. But I am in derision daily, 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 →