Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
lips	שִׂפְתֵ֤י sif.Tei	H8193	the lip (as a natural boundary) · noun, common feminine dual construct
up	קָמַי֙ ka.Mai	H6965	to rise (in various applications · verb, qal active participle, masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix
device	וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם ve.heg.yo.Nam	H1902	a murmuring sound · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
day	הַיּֽוֹם hai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might…
Psalms 59:7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Psalms 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Psalms 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, n…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:55–end

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 his complaints, as Psa 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comforts himself: - I. His experience of God's goodness even in his affliction. This may refer to the prophet's personal experience, with which he encourages himself in reference to the public troubles. He that has seasonably succoured particular saints will not fail the church in general. Or it may in…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:62

lips--speeches.

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 3:60

Thou hast seen - all their imaginations - Every thing is open to the eye of God. Distressed soul! though thou knowest not what thy enemies meditate against thee; yet he who loves thee does, and will infallibly defeat all their plots, and save thee.

John Gill on Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those that rose up against me,.... This is to be connected with the preceding words; and expresses the same thing in different language. The sense is, that the Lord heard the words which dropped from the lips of his enemies; their sarcasms, flouts, and jeers; their bitter reflections, severe invectives, and scornful language: and their device against me all the day; or, "their meditation of ill against me"; or, "their speech", or discourse (x); which all turned upon the same topic. Schultens (y) derives the word from the Arabic word which signifies to mock and scoff, or pursue anyone with ironical and satirical expressions; and so may intend here contumelious and reproachful lan…

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Dictionary and topics

Higgaion — In Ps. 92:3 means the murmuring tone of the harp. In Ps. 9:16 it is a musical sign, denoting probably a pause in the instrumental interlude. In Ps. 19:14 the word is rendered “meditation;” and in…

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Lamentations 3:62

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:55–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:62

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 3:60

John Gill on Lamentations 3:62

Dictionary and topics

Lamentations 3:62

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:55–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:62

Adam Clarke on Lamentations 3:60

John Gill on Lamentations 3:62

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Lamentations 3:62

Keil & Delitzsch on Lamentations 3:55–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Lamentations 3:58-66

Rashi on Lamentations 3:59