Lamentations 3:59
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!”
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BSBPD
“You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Lamentations 3:59 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, surely by now you would have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, and last night He rendered judgment.”
- Psalms 9:4For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.
- Psalms 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
- Psalms 26:1Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
- Psalms 35:1Contend with my opponents, O LORD; fight against those who fight against me.
- Psalms 35:23Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
- Psalms 43:1Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
- Jeremiah 11:19For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
- Jeremiah 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
- Jeremiah 15:10Woe to me, my mother, that you have borne me, a man of strife and conflict in all the land. I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
- Jeremiah 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
- Jeremiah 20:7You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Jeremiah 37:1Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made Zedekiah son of Josiah the king of Judah, and he reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim.
- Lamentations 3:36to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
- Lamentations 3:60You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.
- 1 Peter 2:23When they heaped abuse on Him, He did not retaliate; when He suffered, He made no threats, but entrusted Himself to Him who judges justly.
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