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Klagelieder 3:60
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Du hast all ihre Rachgier gesehen, alle ihre Anschläge wider mich;
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.
