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- Lamentations
- Chapter 3
- Verse 58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
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Gill's Exposition
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psa 139:2; but that is not barely here meant; but…
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lam 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psa 88:6. Some consider that Ps. 69 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer…
We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet's breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to…
Cambridge Bible
thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul The enemy are likened to opponents in a suit at law. The Lord has been the writer's successful advocate against them. He is therefore invoked once again to…
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