Lamentations 3:62
in Lamentations 3the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
BSB
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ASV
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
KJV
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseThe people here are accused of their sins. First, regarding the affliction in their shame: "Thou hast heard their taunts, O Lord, all their devices against me." Which declares, as if: there is no need for proof. For the prophet Daniel 9:16 asserts: "And for …
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׂפְתֵ֤י | siftei | [the] lips of | H8193 → | |
| קָמַי֙ | kamai | [those who] rise against me | H6965 → | 628 times |
| וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם | vehegyonam | and muttering their | H1902 → | |
| עָלַ֖י | ʾalai | on me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַיּֽוֹם׃ | haiyom | the day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
שִׂפְתֵ֤י[the] lips of
sifteiH8193 →
קָמַי֙[those who] rise against me
kamaiH6965 →628 times
וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔םand muttering their
vehegyonamH1902 →
עָלַ֖יon me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
הַיּֽוֹם׃the day
haiyomH3117 →2304 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
Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us…
it leads to
- Psalms 52:2
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Jeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from…
- Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
- Psalms 52:2
Through
Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
it leads to
- Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
- Proverbs 12:13
Through
Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
it leads to
- Psalms 58:4
Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,
- 2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your simple and pure devotion to Christ.
- Romans 3:13–14
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- Psalms 58:4
Through
Psalms 59:7See what they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
it leads to
- Psalms 57:4
My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 57:4
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 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.