Lamentations 3:61

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

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מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם

machăshâbâh

H4284

“thoughts · their”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

Appears 56× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 6:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H2803

TWOT: 767d

thought, device - thought - device, plan, purpose - invention

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם thought H4284 occurs in 52 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
4 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ Qal · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 10 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Lamentations 3:61 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 89:50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants, How I bear in my heart the taunts of all the mighty peoples,
Lamentations 5:1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us: Look, and see our reproach.
Zephaniah 2:8 I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the insults of the children of Ammon, with which they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
Psalms 74:18 Remember this, that the enemy has mocked you, Yahweh. Foolish people have blasphemed your name.
Lamentations 3:30 Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Lamentations 3:61 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ חֶרְפָּתָם֙ יְהוָ֔ה כָּל מַחְשְׁבֹתָ֖ם עָלָֽי

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their devices against me,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Lamentations 3:61 Septuagint · lemma form

ἀκούω ὁ ὀνειδισμός αὐτός πᾶς ὁ διαλογισμός αὐτός κατά ἐγώ

CHSEN. You have heard their reproach and all their devices against me;

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Lamentations 3:61 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Lam 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

Ver. 61. Thou hast heard their reproach.] Their spiteful speeches and taunting terms have come into thine ears.

And all their imaginations.] Heb., Their contrivements. As the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers, {Psa 34:15} so he both seeth the ill carriage and heareth the ill language of graceless persons against the godly.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

their reproach--their reproachful language against me.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

John Calvin's Commentaries

We see that this is a repetition, but for vengeances he now mentions reproaches And in this way he sought again to turn God to mercy; for when he brings no aid, he seems to close his eyes and to render his ears deaf; but when he attends to our evils, he then soon brings help. The Prophet, then, having said that God saw, now refers to hearing: he had heard their reproaches. Adopting a language not strictly proper, he adds, that he had heard their thoughts; though he speaks not only of their secret counsels, but also of all the wicked conspiracies by which his enemies had contrived to ruin him. He adds, —

John Calvin's Commentaries (1540-1563) — public domain. Text from the Calvin Translation Society English edition (1840s-50s) via the Christian Classics Ethereal Library (ccel.org). Calvin's coverage is partial (roughly two-thirds of the Bible); uncommented books and verses are honest gaps, never fabricated. The 19th-century editor's footnotes and remarks are omitted so the notes are faithfully Calvin's own voice.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(61) Thou hast heard.—The verb governs the “lips” of the next verse as well as the “reproaches” of this. In the last clause we note the emphasis of iteration, the natural dwelling on what was prominent in the prophet’s thoughts.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Whatever knowledge men get of things done from their eye or ear, thou hast from thy omnisciency; thou knowest not only their malicious actions, but words and thoughts.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Lamentations, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is machăshâbâh (“thought”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word machăshâbâh carries the sense “thought.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Genesis 6:5, which shares the word «thought», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.