Lamentations 3:59

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

You have seen my wrong, O LORD; judge my case.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רָאִ֤יתָה יְהוָה֙ עַוָּ֣תָתִ֔י שָׁפְטָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּטִֽי׃

Transliteration

rāʾîtâ YHWH ʿawwātātî šāpṭâ mišpāṭî

Grammar Details

• *rāʾîtâ*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have seen
• *YHWH*: proper noun - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʿawwātātî*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my wrong
• *šāpṭâ*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - judge
• *mišpāṭî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my cause

Word Meanings

• *rāʾîtâ*: you have seen/you have observed
• *ʿawwātātî*: my wrong/my injustice/my oppression
• *šāpṭâ*: judge/vindicate
• *mišpāṭî*: my cause/my case/my right

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  O LORD, You have seen my wrong; judge my case.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  O LORDE, thou hast sene my blasphemers, take thou my cause vpon the.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Yahweh, you have seen my wrong; judge you my cause.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Thou hast seen, O Jehovah, my overthrow, Judge Thou my cause.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  O Lord, you have seen my wrong; be judge in my cause.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You have seen the wrong done to me, O LORD; pronounce judgment on my behalf!

Referenced Verses

• Ps 35:23 : 23 Rouse Yourself and awake to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord.
• Ps 43:1 : 1 Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and unjust people.
• Ps 26:1 : 1 Judge me, Lord, for I have walked in my integrity, and I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
• Ps 35:1 : 1 O Lord, stand up against those who oppose me; fight against those who fight me.
• Gen 31:42 : 42 If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.
• Ps 9:4 : 4 When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before your presence.
• Jer 11:19-21 : 19 I was like a gentle lamb being led to the slaughter. I did not realize they had plotted against me, saying, ‘Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will never be remembered again.’ 20 But, LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously and tests the heart and mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have presented my case to you. 21 Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life and say, ‘Do not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hands.’
• Jer 15:10 : 10 Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me—a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
• Jer 18:18-23 : 18 Then they said, 'Come, let's devise plans against Jeremiah, for instruction won't vanish from the priest, counsel from the wise, or a word from the prophet. Come, let's attack him with our words, and let's not pay attention to anything he says.' 19 Listen to me, Lord! Hear what my accusers are saying! 20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember how I stood before You to speak on their behalf, to turn Your wrath away from them. 21 So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle. 22 Let a cry be heard from their houses when You suddenly bring a raiding party upon them, for they have dug a pit to capture me and hidden snares for my feet. 23 But You, Lord, know all their plans to kill me. Do not forgive their wrongdoing, do not blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them collapse before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.
• Jer 20:7-9 : 7 LORD, you deceived me, and I was deceived. You overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me. 8 Whenever I speak, I cry out, proclaiming violence and destruction. So the word of the LORD has brought me insult and reproach all day long. 9 But if I say, 'I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,' His word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot. 10 I hear many whispering, 'Terror on every side! Report him! Let’s report him!' All my friends are waiting for me to slip, saying, 'Perhaps he will be deceived; then we will prevail over him and take our revenge on him.'
• Jer 37:1-9 : 1 King Zedekiah son of Josiah became king in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon appointed to rule over the land of Judah. 2 Neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD, which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah. 3 King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah to the prophet Jeremiah with this message: "Please pray to the LORD our God for us." 4 Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put into prison. 5 Pharaoh's army had marched out of Egypt, and when the Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard the report about them, they withdrew from the city. 6 Then the word of the LORD came to the prophet Jeremiah: 7 This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: You are to tell this to the king of Judah who sent you to inquire of me: 'Pharaoh's army, which has marched out to help you, will return to its own land, to Egypt.' 8 'Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city; they will capture it and burn it with fire.' 9 This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves, thinking, 'The Chaldeans will surely leave us,' for they will not leave. 10 Even if you were to strike down the entire Chaldean army fighting against you, and only wounded men were left in their tents, they would rise up and burn this city with fire. 11 When the Chaldean army withdrew from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army, 12 Jeremiah started to leave Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin to claim his share of property among the people. 13 But when he reached the Benjamin Gate, a captain of the guard named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, was there. He arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, "You are deserting to the Chaldeans!" 14 Jeremiah replied, "That is a lie! I am not deserting to the Chaldeans." But Irijah would not listen to him. Instead, he seized Jeremiah and brought him to the officials. 15 The officials were furious with Jeremiah, and they beat him and put him in prison, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which had been made into a prison. 16 When Jeremiah was put into the dungeon and the cells, he remained there for many days. 17 Then King Zedekiah sent for him and secretly questioned him in his palace, saying, "Is there any word from the LORD?" Jeremiah replied, "There is. You will be handed over to the king of Babylon." 18 Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, your officials, or this people, to justify putting me in prison? 19 Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, saying, 'The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land'? 20 Now please hear me, my lord the king. Let my plea come before you: Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there. 21 So King Zedekiah commanded that Jeremiah be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread daily from the bakers' street until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 When He was reviled, He did not revile in return. When He suffered, He did not threaten, but entrusted Himself to the One who judges justly.