Lamentations 3:60 (LSB)

Passage

You have seen all their vengeance, All their purposes against me.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:58 O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life.

Lamentations 3:59 O Yahweh, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.

Lamentations 3:60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their purposes against me.

Lamentations 3:61 You have heard their reproach, O Yahweh, All their purposes against me.

Lamentations 3:62 The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "purpose", "seen", "vengeance", "purposes", and "against". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "purpose" and "seen", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 59's "O Yahweh You have seen my oppression..." into verse 61's "You have heard their reproach O Yahweh...", so "purpose" and "seen" 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 "purpose" and "seen" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.