Lamentations 3:60 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

KJV

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ASV

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

WEB

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

YLT

Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.

DBT

Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.

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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.

Author: Traditionally Jeremiah (cf. 2 Chron 35:25); the book itself is anonymous
Date: Shortly after Jerusalem's fall, c. 586 BC

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Jeremiah 11:19–20
But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Psalms 10:14
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
Lamentations 3:59
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

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Some think Jeremiah makes these complaints, not only as an intercessor for Israel, but as a type of Christ, who was thought by some to be Jeremiah the weeping prophet, because he was much in tears ( Matt. xvi.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

imaginations--devices (Jer 11:19). Their vengeance--means their malice. Jeremiah gives his conduct, when plotted against by his foes, as an example how the Jews should bring their wrongs at the hands of the Chaldeans before God.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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