Lamentations 3:60
in Lamentations 3You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
KJV
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseSecond, an accusation, as to the fury in the enemy's heart is underscored: "Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me." For Jeremiah 18:18 reports: "Then they said 'Come, let us make plots against Jeremiah, for the law shall not perish from …
This site's exposition
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause
on Lamentations 3:59-66
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause turns the chapter's last unit toward the enemies who chased and mocked the sufferer, the case brought to the Judge rather than settled by the sufferer himself. Thou hast heard their reproach and their imaginations against me, the lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day, catalogues the hostility in detail before the closing plea. Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands asks for exact justice rather than excess, and persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord closes the chapter on the same imprecatory note that closed chapter 1, the bench reading these prayers as appeals to God's own justice rather than private vengeance, the sufferer's case handed over rather than taken into his own hands.
The record, by era
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
Thou hast seen - all their imaginations - Every thing is open to the eye of God. Distressed soul! though thou knowest not what thy enemies meditate against thee; yet he who loves thee does, and will infallibly defeat all their plots, and save thee.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רָאִ֙יתָה֙ | raitah | you have seen | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| נִקְמָתָ֔ם | nikmatam | vengeance their | H5360 → | |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם | machshevotam | plans their | H4284 → | |
| לִֽי׃ ס | li | to me |
רָאִ֙יתָה֙you have seen
raitahH7200 →1300 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
נִקְמָתָ֔םvengeance their
nikmatamH5360 →
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖םplans their
machshevotamH4284 →
לִֽי׃ סto me
li
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
it leads to
- Psalms 68:5
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
- Psalms 146:9
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
- Psalms 55:22
Cast your burden upon the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Jeremiah 49:11
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
- Psalms 68:5
Through
Lamentations 3:59You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!
it leads to
- Psalms 43:1
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
- Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen…
- Psalms 35:1
Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.
- Psalms 43:1
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.