Lamentations 3:60
in Lamentations 3You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
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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
5 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 …
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
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.
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance,.... The spirit of revenge in them; their wrath and fury, and how they burn with a desire of doing mischief; as well as their revengeful actions, carriage, and behaviour: and all their imaginations against me; their secret contrivances of mischief, their plots and schemes they devise to do hurt unto me.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
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.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
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.
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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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Lamentations.