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What does Lamentations 3:61 mean?
"You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,"
— Lamentations 3:61 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul. You have redeemed my life.
Yahweh, you have seen my wrong. Judge my cause.
You have seen all their vengeance and all their plans against me.
You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,
the lips of those that rose up against me, and their plots against me all day long.
You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
You will pay them back, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.
Explanation
Lamentations 3:61 says, in essence, "Lord, you have already heard the insults and mockery aimed at me, and you know all the schemes my enemies are plotting against me." The verse is not a request for God to start listening — it's a statement of confidence that God has already heard. The speaker is reminding God (and himself) that nothing said or plotted against him has gone unnoticed by heaven.
Lamentations was written in the aftermath of Jerusalem's destruction by the Babylonians in 586 BC, traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, who witnessed the devastation firsthand. The book is a collection of five poems mourning the fall of the city, the suffering of its people, and the apparent silence of God in the face of
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