King James Version
Lamentations 3:59 in the King James Version says “O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.”
Lamentations 3:59 · KJV
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
KJV Study — Public Domain
“thou hast seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“judge”
H8199to judge, i.e., pronounce sentence (for or against); by implication, to vindicate or punish; by extenssion, to govern; passively, to litigate (literal
“thou my cause”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
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