Lamentations 3:35
in Lamentations 3to deny a man justice before the Most High,
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ASV
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
KJV
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
4 notes on this verseTo turn aside the right of a man - To make a man lose his right, because one of the higher orders opposes him. Dr. Blayney thinks that עליון elyon, instead of being referred to God, should be considered as pointing out one of the chief of the people. I do not see that we gain any thing by this.
This site's exposition
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth
on Lamentations 3:34-36
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth opens a list of the injustices the Lord does not approve, prisoners abused, a man's right turned aside before the face of the most High, a man subverted in his cause. The three lines share one grammatical subject held back until the end, the Lord approveth not, so that the reader hears each wrong named before learning that God stands against it rather than behind it. Barnes reads the unit as answering any reading of the chapter's earlier suffering that would make God the author of injustice generally, the specific complaint against the exile's own cruelty rather than a claim that no suffering is ever just.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
on Lamentations 3:34-36
If men injure them under colour of law, and in the pretended administration of justice,--if they turn aside the right of a man, so that he cannot discover what his rights are or cannot come at them, they are out of his reach,--if they subvert a man in his cause, and bring in a wrong verdict, or give a false judgment, let them know, (1.) That God sees them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
on Lamentations 3:34-36
This triplet has an infinitive in the beginning of each verse, the governing finite verb being in the end of La 3:36, "the Lord approveth not," which is to be repeated in each verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְהַטּוֹת֙ | lehatot | to turn aside | H5186 → | |
| מִשְׁפַּט־ | mishpat- | [the] justice of | H4941 → | |
| גָּ֔בֶר | gaver | a man | H1397 → | 65 times |
| נֶ֖גֶד | neged | before | H5048 → | |
| פְּנֵ֥י | penei | [the] presence of | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| עֶלְיֽוֹן׃ | elyon | [the] Most High | H5945 → |
לְהַטּוֹת֙to turn aside
lehatotH5186 →
מִשְׁפַּט־[the] justice of
mishpat-H4941 →
גָּ֔בֶרa man
gaverH1397 →65 times
נֶ֖גֶדbefore
negedH5048 →
פְּנֵ֥י[the] presence of
peneiH6440 →2123 times
עֶלְיֽוֹן׃[the] Most High
elyonH5945 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.