Lamentations 3:62
The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
In Context
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me;
63On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.
Cross References
Psalms 59:12The sin of their mouth, The word of their lips, Let them then be captured in their pride, Both for the oath and for the deception they record.
Jeremiah 18:18Then said they,—Come ye and let us devise against Jeremiah devices, For the law shall not perish from the priest, Nor, counsel, from the wise, Nor, the word from the prophet: Come and let as smite him with the tongue, And let us not give ear to any of his words!
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 →