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Lamentations 3:58

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

Thou hast redeemed my life. He who is our Advocate is also our Redeemer, and therefore we are doubly safe. Glory be to his name!

O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong,.... Or, "my perverseness" (w); not that he or they had been guilty of; but the wrong that was done to him and them by their enemies; how perverse and ill natured they had been to them; how badly they had used them; what injuries they had done them; none of which escaped the omniscience of God, to which the appeal...

Lamentations 3:60

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

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.

Lamentations 3:61

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

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;...

Lamentations 3:62

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

The lips of those that rose up against me,.... This is to be connected with the preceding words; and expresses the same thing in different language. The sense is, that the Lord heard the words which dropped from the lips of his enemies; their sarcasms, flouts, and jeers; their bitter reflections, severe invectives, and scornful language: and their...

Lamentations 3:63

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psalms 139:2; but that is not barely here meant; but that he would take particular notice hereof, and punish for the same. It may have respect both to their lying down at night, and rising in the...

Lamentations 3:64

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands. The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render this, and the following verses, not as petitions, but as prophecies of what should be; but they seem rather to be expressed by way of request; and here, that God would deal with them according to the law of retaliation, and...

Lamentations 3:65

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Give them sorrow of heart,.... That which will cause sorrow of heart; such judgments and punishments as will be grievous to them. Some have observed a likeness between the word here used and that translated "music", Lamentations 3:63; and think some respect may be had to it; that whereas the people of God had been matter of mirth and music to...

Lamentations 3:66

John Gill - Exposition - John Gill

Persecute and destroy them in anger,.... As they have persecuted the people of God, do thou persecute them; and never leave pursuing them untie thou hast made a full end of them, as the effect of vindictive wrath and vengeance: from under the heavens of the Lord; which are made by him, and in which he dwells; let them not have the benefit of them,...