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Ratapan 3:60

Engkau telah melihat segala dendam mereka, segala rancangan mereka terhadap aku."

Bible Study Resources

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Imagination;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Imagination;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Engkau telah melihat segala dendam mereka, segala rancangan mereka terhadap aku."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bahwa Engkau sudah melihat segala bengisnya, dan segala rekanya akan daku!

Contextual Overview

55 I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit. 56 Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying. 57 Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not. 58 Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe. 59 O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee. 60 Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me. 61 Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me: 62 The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long. 63 Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me. 64 Rewarde them, O Lorde, according to the workes of their handes.

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.


 
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