Lamentations 3:36 - Revised Standard Version CI

³⁶ to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.

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

2 Samuel 11:27

And 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.

Psalm 94:5

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

Proverbs 24:12

If you say, “Behold, 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 requite man according to his work?

Isaiah 59:15

Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place.

Lamentations 3:59

Thou hast seen the wrong done to me, O Lord; judge thou my cause.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil and canst not look on wrong, why dost thou look on faithless men, and art silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?

Deuteronomy 25:1

“If there is a dispute between men, and they come into court, and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,