Lamentations 3:59
Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
In Context
58Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life;
60Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.
Cross References
Psalms 9:4For thou hast executed my right and my cause, Thou hast sat on the throne, judging righteously:
Psalms 26:1Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.
Psalms 35:23Bestir thyself and wake up, to my vindication, O my God and My Lord!—to my plea:
Jeremiah 11:19But, I, was as a gentle lamb that is to be led to the slaughter,—and I knew not that against me, they had devised devices [saying] —Let us destroy the tree with its fruit Yea let us cut him off out of the land of the living, And, his name, shall be remembered no more!
Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me! my mother, That thou didst bear me, A man of litigation and a man of contention to all the land,—I have not lent on interest Nor have they lent on interest to me, Every one, hath treated me with contempt.
Jeremiah 20:7Thou didst persuade me, O Yahweh and I was persuaded, Thou didst lay firm hold on me and didst prevail,—I am become a mockery, all the day, Every one, is laughing at 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 →