Lamentations 3:61 (GNV)

Passage

Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:59 O Lord, thou hast seene my wrong, iudge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3:60 Thou hast seene all their vengeance, and all their deuises against me.

Lamentations 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproch, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me:

Lamentations 3:62 The lippes also of those that rose against me, and their whispering against me continually.

Lamentations 3:63 Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "hast", "heard", "reproch", "lord", "imaginations", and "against". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "hast", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 60's "Thou hast seene all their vengeance and..." into verse 62's "The lippes also of those that rose...", so "thou" and "hast" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "hast" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.