Lamentations 3:59
Hashem, Thou hast seen my wrong; 1 uphold my cause. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58Adonoi, Thou hast pleaded the causes of my nefesh; 1 Thou hast redeemed my life. 1
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance 1 and all their machsh'vot against me. 1
Cross References
Psalms 9:4When mine oyevim are turned back, 1 they shall fall and perish at Thy presence. 1
Psalms 26:1(Of Dovid) 1 for I have walked in mine tohm (guilelessness); 1 I have trusted also in Hashem without wavering. 1
Psalms 35:23Stir up Thyself, and awake to my mishpat, 1 even to my cause, Elohai and Adonoi. 1
Jeremiah 11:19But I was like an innocent keves (lamb) 1 that is brought to the slaughter; 1 and I knew not that 1 they had devised machashavot (plots) against me, 1 saying: Let us destroy the etz (tree) with the fruit thereof, 1 and let us cut him off from Eretz Chayyim, 1 that shmo may be no more remembered. 1
Jeremiah 15:10Oy li, immi, that thou bore me, an ish riv (a man of strife) and an ish madon (a man of contention) to kol ha'aretz (the whole land)! I have neither lent, neither have any lent to me; yet every one of them doth curse me.
Jeremiah 20:7Hashem, Thou hast induced me, 1 and I was induced; 1 Thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed; 1 I am a laughingstock all day long, 1 every one mocketh me. 1
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 →