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Lamentations 3:60
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You saw all their vengefulness,all their plots against me.
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
You have seen how my enemies took revenge on me and made evil plans against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
You have seen all their vengeance,All their purposes against me.
You see all their malice, all their plots against me.
You know every plot they have made against me.
You have seen all their vindictiveness and all their plots against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their imaginations against me.
You have seen how my enemies have hurt me. You have seen all the evil plans that they made against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, all there plans against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
Thou hast well considred how they go aboute to do me harme, & that all their councels are agaynst me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Thou hast seene all their vengeance; and all their imaginations against me.
Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, thou hast looked on all their devices against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Res. Thou siest al the woodnesse, alle the thouytis of hem ayenus me.
You have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.
You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.
You have seen the vengeful plots my enemies have laid against me.
You have seen how much they hate me and plan against me.
You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me.
Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their thoughts against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, all their devices against me.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance, All their thoughts of me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lamentations 3:59, Psalms 10:14, Jeremiah 11:19, Jeremiah 11:20
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.
Lamentations 3:58
God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.
Lamentations 3:59
Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.
Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61
Imaginations - Or, devices.
Lamentations 3:63
Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.
Musick - Or, song, “the subject of it.”
Lamentations 3:64-66
The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, “Thou shalt render unto them a recompence,” etc.
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart - Or, “Thou wilt give them” blindness “of heart.”
Lamentations 3:66
Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Lamentations 3:60. 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.
