Lamentations 3:62

Modern

…the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

Traditional

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Literal

…the lips of my assailants and their murmuring against me all the day,

Latin

Labia insurgentium mihi, et meditationes eorum adversum me tota die.

Hebrew

English

…the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.

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).

Ezekiel 36:3
…therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
Psalm 59:7
See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
Psalm 59:12
By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
Jeremiah 18:18
Then 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.”