Lamentations 3:62

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם

higgâyôwn

H1902

“and · meditation · their”

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

Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Psalms 9:16

Full BDB Definition

Origin: intensive from H1897

TWOT: 467c

meditation, resounding music, musing - resounding music - meditation, plotting

About this verse

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6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם meditation H1902 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם meditation H1902 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
4 nouns
1 preposition

Verb forms

קָמַי֙ Qal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 17 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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Lamentations 3:62 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;
Psalms 59:7 Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
Psalms 59:12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, Let them be caught in their pride, For the curses and lies which they utter.
Psalms 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Lamentations 3:62 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

שִׂפְתֵ֤י קָמַי֙ וְהֶגְיוֹנָ֔ם עָלַ֖י כָּל הַיּֽוֹם

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Lamentations 3:62 Septuagint · lemma form

χεῖλος ἐπι ἀναἵστημι ἐγώ καί μελέτη αὐτός κατά ἐγώ ὅλος ὁ ἡμέρα

the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;

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 3:62 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 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Ver. 62. The lips of those that rose up.] See on Lam 3:61.

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

lips--speeches.

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

Instead of thoughts, he now mentions lips, or words. The verb הגה, ege means to meditate, when no voice is uttered; but as the noun is connected here with lips, there is no doubt but that the Prophet refers to words, rather than to hidden meditations. He then says, that such were the conspiracies, that they did not conceal what they had in their hearts, but publicly avowed their wicked purposes. Now this insolence must have moved God to aid his people, so unjustly oppressed.

He adds, every day, or daily. This circumstance also must have availed to obtain favor, so that God might the sooner aid his people. For had the ungodly made violent assaults, and soon given over, it would have been easy to persevere in so short a trial, as when a storm soon passes by; but when they went on perseveringly in their machinations, it was very hard to bear the trial. And hence we derive a ground of hope, supplied to us by what the Holy Spirit suggests to us here, that God will be merciful to us on seeing the pertinacity of our enemies. He then 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

(62) The lips . . . The organs of speech are used boldly for the words which they uttered, and so stand parallel with “reproaches” in Lam_3:61.

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

62. The lips] i.e. the utterances, governed by Thou heardest of Lam_3:61.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Lips; or language (Genesis xi. 1.) thou knowest, ver. 60.

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

That is, thou hast observed and noted the motions or products of my enemies’ lips, and their secret devices before they came out of their lips.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

The lips stand here for "the fruit of the lips;" and the verb which governs the nouns is "thou hast heard," in the preceding verse.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

The lips and the accusations ... come against me all the day

The author speaks of his enemies accusing him all day as if their accusations were soldiers that come to attack him all day. AT: "My enemies speak against me and accuse me through the whole day" (See: Metaphor)

The lips ... of my enemies

Here the lips represent what his enemies say. AT: "The words ... of my enemies" (See: Metonymy)

how they sit and then rise up

These two actions together represent everything the people do. AT: "everything they do" (See: Merism)

translationWords

accuse

mock

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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

Discussion questions

What does “meditation” (higgâyôwn) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Psalms 9:16 shares the word «meditation» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «קָמַי֙» is Qal Participle Active. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 5 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.