Lamentations 3:61

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Lam 5:1 : 1 Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us: Behold, and see our reproach.
Zeph 2:8 : 8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, wherewith they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Ps 89:50 : 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,
Lam 3:30 : 30 Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Lam 3:59-60
2 verses
91%
59O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.
60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.
Lam 3:62-64
3 verses
83%
62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
64Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.
Job 21:27
78%
27Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
Job 16:10
75%
10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.
Ps 56:5
75%
5All the day long they wrest my words: All their thoughts are against me for evil.
Ps 69:19
75%
19Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee.
Jer 18:23
75%
23Yet, Jehovah, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me; forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight; but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thou with them in the time of thine anger.
Ps 31:13
75%
13For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Ps 102:8
74%
8Mine enemies reproach me all the day; They that are mad against me do curse by me.
Ps 21:11
74%
11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Ps 41:7
74%
7All that hate me whisper together against me; Against me do they devise my hurt.
Lam 1:21-22
2 verses
74%
21They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
22Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Ps 89:50-51
2 verses
73%
50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; How I do bear in my bosom [the reproach of] all the mighty peoples,
51Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Jehovah, Wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Job 19:3
73%
3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.
Ezek 35:13
73%
13And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.
Ps 55:3
73%
3Because of the voice of the enemy, Because of the oppression of the wicked; For they cast iniquity upon me, And in anger they persecute me.
Jer 20:10
73%
10For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
Ps 35:21-22
2 verses
73%
21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me; They said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
22Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; Keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Ps 44:16
72%
16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
Ps 59:8
72%
8But thou, O Jehovah, wilt laugh at them; Thou wilt have all the nations in derision.
Ps 62:3
72%
3How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay [him], all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?
Ps 10:2
72%
2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
Jer 15:15
72%
15O Jehovah, thou knowest; remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
Job 19:5
72%
5If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, And plead against me my reproach;
Ps 38:12
72%
12They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]; And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, And meditate deceits all the day long.
Ps 139:20
72%
20For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.
Ps 41:10
72%
10But thou, O Jehovah, have mercy upon me, and raise me up, That I may requite them.
Ps 109:20
72%
20This is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.
Ps 22:7
72%
7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
Ps 74:18
72%
18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Jer 11:20
72%
20But, O Jehovah of hosts, who judgest righteously, who triest the heart and the mind, I shall see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Ps 71:10
71%
10For mine enemies speak concerning me; And they that watch for my soul take counsel together,
Hos 7:15
71%
15Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet do they devise mischief against me.
Ps 3:1
71%
1A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. Jehovah, how are mine adversaries increased! Many are they that rise up against me.
Jer 20:12
71%
12But, O Jehovah of hosts, that triest the righteous, that seest the heart and the mind, let me see thy vengeance on them; for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Ps 140:9
71%
9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
Ps 109:2-3
2 verses
71%
2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
3They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Lam 3:3
71%
3Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.
Ps 55:12
71%
12For it was not an enemy that reproached me; Then I could have borne it: Neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; Then I would have hid myself from him:
Ps 109:25
71%
25I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.
Lam 3:14
71%
14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lam 3:46
71%
46All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.
Ps 25:19
71%
19Consider mine enemies, for they are many; And they hate me with cruel hatred.