Lamentations 3:61
in Lamentations 3O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,
KJV
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThou hast heard their reproach, O Lord,.... Their reproachful words uttered against the prophet and his people, against God himself; their spiteful language, their taunts, and scoffs and jeers: and all their imaginations against me; those he not only saw, as they appeared in their actions; but heard them, as they were expressed by their words; yea, they were manifest to him, while they only were in silent thought forming in the mind.
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ | shama'ta | you have heard | H8085 → | 1159 times |
| חֶרְפָּתָם֙ | cherpatam | reproach their | H2781 → | 73 times |
| יְהוָ֔ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם | machshevotam | plans their | H4284 → | |
| עָלָֽי׃ | ʾalai | on me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
שָׁמַ֤עְתָּyou have heard
shama'taH8085 →1159 times
חֶרְפָּתָם֙reproach their
cherpatamH2781 →73 times
יְהוָ֔הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖םplans their
machshevotamH4284 →
עָלָֽי׃on me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
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
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
it leads to
- Psalms 89:50–51
Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 44:13–16
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 89:50–51
Through
Lamentations 3:30Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.
it leads to
- Job 16:10
They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.
- Isaiah 50:6
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- Matthew 5:39
But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;
- Matthew 26:67
Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
- Job 16:10
Through
Psalms 89:50Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—
it leads to
- Psalms 74:18
Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O LORD, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.
- Psalms 74:22
Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.
- Psalms 74:18
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.