Lamentations 3:36
34 To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,
35 to deny a man justice before the Most High,
to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
37 Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?
38 Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.
- KJV
- To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
- WEB
- to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.
- ASV
- To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
- DARBY
- to wrong a man in his cause, will not the Lord see it?
- BLB
- to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord does not approve.
- ÅB
- eller gjør en mann urett i hans sak - mon Herren ikke ser det?
- OTB
- Å bedra noen i deres rettssak—disse tingene godkjenner ikke Herren.
- B1930
- eller gjør en mann urett i hans sak - mon Herren ikke ser det?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 59:15
Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice.
Read in contextHabakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
Read in contextJeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Read in context2 Samuel 11:27
And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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