Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;
Lamentations — Five poems over the ruin of Jerusalem. The first four are alphabetic acrostics — every letter of the Hebrew alphabet drafted to hold the weight of grief. At the book's centre, mercy renewed every morning.
The verses this one reaches7
Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, Violence and destruction! because the word of Jehovah is made a reproach unto me, and a derision, all the day.
The walk8
Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page, and every stop travels with its words.
Through
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
leads to
Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
Through
Lamentations 3:30Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.
leads to
They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Then did they spit in his face and buffet him: and some smote him with the palms of their hands,
Through
Psalms 89:50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty peoples,
leads to
Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee all the day.
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.