Lamentations 3:61

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, you heard their insults,all their plots against me.

Hebrew Names Version
You have heard their reproach, LORD, and all their devices against me,

King James Version
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord , and all their imaginations against me;

English Standard Version
"You have heard their taunts, O Lord , all their plots against me.

New American Standard Bible
You have heard their reproach, LORD, All their schemes against me.

New Century Version
Lord , you have heard their insults and all their evil plans against me.

Amplified Bible
You have heard their reproach, O LORD, And all their schemes against me.

World English Bible
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

New American Standard Bible (1995)
You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me.

Legacy Standard Bible
You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh,All their purposes against me.

Berean Standard Bible
O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me-

Contemporary English Version
Yes, you know their insults and their evil plans.

Complete Jewish Bible
You have heard their taunts, Adonai , and all their plots against me,

Darby Translation
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their imaginations against me;

Easy-to-Read Version
You heard them insult me, Lord . You have heard all the evil plans that they made against me.

George Lamsa Translation
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and their devices against me,

Good News Translation
"You have heard them insult me, O Lord ; you know all their plots.

Lexham English Bible
You have heard their disgrace, O Yahweh, all their plans against me.

Literal Translation
You have heard their reproach, O Jehovah, all their plots against me,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast herde their despytefull wordes (O LORDE) yee and all their ymaginacions agaynst me.

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

Bible in Basic English
Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD, and all their devices against me;

King James Version (1611)
Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
CHSEN. Thou hast heard their reproach and all their devices against me;

English Revised Version
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Syn. Lord, thou herdist the schenshipis of hem; alle the thouytis of hem ayens me.

Update Bible Version
You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

New English Translation

ש (Sin/Shin)

You have heard their taunts, O Lord , all their plots against me.

New King James Version
You have heard their reproach, O LORD, All their schemes against me,

New Living Translation
Lord , you have heard the vile names they call me. You know all about the plans they have made.

New Life Bible
O Lord, You have heard how they put me to shame and how they work against me.

New Revised Standard
You have heard their taunts, O Lord , all their plots against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all their imaginations against me.

Revised Standard Version
"Thou hast heard their taunts, O LORD, all their devices against me.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, All their thoughts against me,

THE MESSAGE
"You heard, God , their vicious gossip, their behind-my-back plots to ruin me. They never quit, these enemies of mine, dreaming up mischief, hatching out malice, day after day after day. Sitting down or standing up—just look at them!— they mock me with vulgar doggerel.

Contextual Overview

⁵⁵ I have called upon thy Name, O Yahweh, out of the dungeon below; ⁵⁶ My voice, thou hast heard, - do not close thine ear to my respite, to mine outcry; ⁵⁷ Thou drewest near, in the day I kept calling on thee, thou saidst, Do not fear! ⁵⁸ Thou hast pleaded, O My Lord, the pleas of my soul, hast redeemed my life; ⁵⁹ Thou hast beheld, O Yahweh, my failure to get justice, Pronounce thou my sentence; ⁶⁰ Thou hast seen all their vindictiveness, all their plots against me. ⁶¹ Thou hast heard their reproach, O Yahweh, all their plots against me; ⁶² The lips of mine assailants, and their mutterings, are against me, all the day; ⁶³ On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song. ⁶⁴ Thou wilt render to them a recompense, O Yahweh, according to the work of their hands;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Lamentations 3:30, Lamentations 5:1, Psalms 74:18, Psalms 89:50, Zephaniah 2:8

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 1:3 - in great Jeremiah 20:8 - the word

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord,.... Their reproachful words uttered against the prophet and his people, against God himself; their spiteful language, their taunts, and scoffs and jeers:

[and] all their imaginations against me; those he not only saw, as they appeared in their actions; but heard them, as they were expressed by their words; yea, they were manifest to him, while they only were in silent thought forming in the mind.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.

Lamentations 3:55

Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).

Lamentations 3:56

Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.

Lamentations 3:58

God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.

Lamentations 3:59

Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.

Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61

Imaginations - Or, devices.

Lamentations 3:63

Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.

Musick - Or, song, “the subject of it.”

Lamentations 3:64-66

The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, “Thou shalt render unto them a recompence,” etc.

Lamentations 3:65

Give them sorrow of heart - Or, “Thou wilt give them” blindness “of heart.”

Lamentations 3:66

Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.