Lamentations 3:62 KJV — MannaFest

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

KJV

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ASV

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

WEB

the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

YLT

The lips of my withstanders, Even their meditation against me all the day.

DBT

the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day.

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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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Ezekiel 36:3
Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
Psalms 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
Psalms 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Jeremiah 18:18
Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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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

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