Lamentations 3:58-60

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Jeremiah cites God's gracious answers to his prayers, in times past, as an encouragement to his fellow-countrymen to trust in Him.

Verse 58. Thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul - (, "Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me;" ).

Verse 59. O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong. God's past deliverances (), and His knowledge of Judah's wrongs, are made the grounds of prayer for relief.

Verse 60. Thou hast seen ... all their imaginations - devices against me of the men of Anathoth, who sought my life (). "Their vengeance" means their malice, and the feeling of revenge which they entertained against him, because of his faithful prophecies. Jeremiah gives his conduct, when plotted against by his foes, as an example how the Jews should bring their wrongs at the hands of the Chaldeans before God.

[Sin/Shin (s/sh)]