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Lamentations 3:61

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

  • KJV King James Version

    Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Thou hast heard their taunt, O LORD, and all their devices against me;

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Cross-references (5)

Passages linked to Lamentations 3:61 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, how I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
  • Lamentations 5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.
  • Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
  • Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
  • Lamentations 3:30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

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Explain this verse (5 sources)

Historical commentary, presented as a primary source — not an endorsement.

John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain We see that this is a repetition, but for…

We see that this is a repetition, but for vengeances he now mentions reproaches And in this way he sought again to turn God to mercy; for when he brings no aid, he seems to close his eyes and to render his ears deaf; but when he attends to our evils, he then soon brings help. The Prophet, then, having said that God saw, now refers to hearing: he had heard their reproaches. Adopting a language not strictly proper, he adds, that he had heard their thoughts; though he speaks not only of their secret counsels, but also of all the wicked conspiracies by which his enemies had contrived to ruin him. He adds, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD,…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Whatever knowledge men get of things done from their…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain their reproach--their reproachful language against me.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (61) Thou hast heard.—The verb governs the “lips” of…

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