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La Biblia Reina-Valera
Lamentaciones 3:61
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Dictionaries:
- FaussetParallel Translations
Has oído sus oprobios, oh Señor , todas sus tramas contra mí;
T has odo el oprobio de ellos, oh Jehov, todas sus maquinaciones contra m;
Sin : T has odo la afrenta de ellos, oh SEOR, todas sus maquinaciones contra m;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Lamentations 3:30, Lamentations 5:1, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50, Zephaniah 2:8
Reciprocal: Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Jeremiah 20:8 - the word
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord,.... Their reproachful words uttered against the prophet and his people, against God himself; their spiteful language, their taunts, and scoffs and jeers:
[and] all their imaginations against me; those he not only saw, as they appeared in their actions; but heard them, as they were expressed by their words; yea, they were manifest to him, while they only were in silent thought forming in the mind.
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.
