Lamentations 3:58
O Lord, thou hast maintained the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my life.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
In Context
57Thou drewest neere in the day that I called vpon thee: thou saydest, Feare not.
59O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16The Angel, which hath deliuered me from all euill, blesse the children, and let my name be named vpon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Izhak, that they may growe as fish into a multitude in the middes of the earth.
Job 35:14Although thou sayest to God, Thou wilt not regard it, yet iudgement is before him: trust thou in him.
Psalms 34:22The Lord redeemeth the soules of his seruants: and none, that trust in him, shall perish.
Psalms 103:4Which redeemeth thy life from the graue, and crowneth thee with mercy and compassions.
Jeremiah 11:20But O Lord of hostes, that iudgest righteously, and triest the reines and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for vnto thee haue I opened my cause.
Jeremiah 38:13So they drewe vp Ieremiah with coards and tooke him vp out of the dungeon, and Ieremiah 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 →