Lamentations 3:36 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁶ when one’s case is subverted— does the Lord not see it?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁶ To subvert a man in his cause, The Lord approveth not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁶ To subvert a man in his cause–[of these things] the Lord does not approve.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁶ To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Common English Bible

³⁶ subverting a person’s lawsuit—doesn’t my Lord see all this?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁶ LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.

Lamentations 3:36 Cross References

Habakkuk 1:13

Your eyes are too pure to behold evil, and you cannot look on wrongdoing; why do you look on the treacherous and are silent when the wicked swallow those more righteous than they?

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and whoever turns from evil is despoiled. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Act with justice and righteousness and deliver from the hand of the oppressor anyone who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the orphan, and the widow, or shed innocent blood in this place.

2 Samuel 11:27

When the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord,

Deuteronomy 25:1

“Suppose two persons have a dispute and enter into litigation, and the judges decide between them, declaring one to be in the right and the other to be in the wrong.

Psalm 94:5

They crush your people, O Lord, and afflict your heritage.

Proverbs 24:12

if you say, “Look, we did not know this”— does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it? And will he not repay all according to their deeds?

Lamentations 3:59

You have seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge my cause.