Lamentations 3:59

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Summary

Lamentations 3:59

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Thou hast

Judge

General references

Lamentations 3:60

Bible References

Thou hast

But I was like a ram or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; for I did not understand that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with its fruit, and let us cut him off from the land of the living that his name may no longer be remembered.

Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them curses me.

Then they said, 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 consider any of his words.

O LORD, thou hast seduced me, and I was seduced; thou wert stronger than I and hast overcome me; I am in derision daily; every one mocks me.

Judge

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, were not with me, surely thou would send me away now empty. God has seen my affliction and the work of my hands and rebuked thee last night.

For thou hast accomplished my judgment and my cause; thou didst sit in the throne judging according to righteousness.

Judge me, O LORD, for I have walked in my integrity; I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

Plead my cause, O LORD, with those that strive with me; fight against those that fight against me.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against those who are not merciful; O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

who, when he was cursed, did not return the curse; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but committed himself to him that judges righteously;

General references

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