Lamentations 3:36 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁶ Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

Lamentations 3:36 Cross References

2 Samuel 11:27

And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.

Psalm 94:5

They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, And afflict thine heritage.

Proverbs 24:12

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew not this: Doth not he that weigheth the hearts consider it? And he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? And shall not he render to every man according to his work?

Isaiah 59:15

Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgement.

Jeremiah 22:3

Thus saith the LORD: Execute ye judgement and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Lamentations 3:59

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause.

Habakkuk 1:13

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Deuteronomy 25:1

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgement, and the judges judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked;