Lamentations 3:60

Modern

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

Traditional

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

Literal

You have seen all their vengeance, all their plots against me.

Latin

Vidisti omnem furorem, universas cogitationes eorum adversum me.

Hebrew

English

You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.

Jerusalem deserved punishment, but the enemies carried it out with undeserved cruelty. The writer calls upon God to punish them.

The author emphasizes how cruel the enemies are and cries out to the Lord for help.

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

Jeremiah 11:19–20
For 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.”
Psalm 10:14
But 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.
Lamentations 3:59
You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!