Lamentations 3:58
O LORD, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
In Context
57You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, Fear not.
59O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.
Cross References
Genesis 48:16The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
Job 35:14Although you says you shall not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust you in him.
Psalms 34:22The LORD redeems the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.
Psalms 103:4Who redeems your life from destruction; who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies;
Jeremiah 11:20But, O LORD of hosts, that judge righteously, that try the reins and the heart, let me see your vengeance on them: for unto you have I revealed my cause.
Jeremiah 38:13So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah 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 →