Bible Strands
Lamentations 3:62
the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The speaker addresses the LORD, describing the relentless verbal attacks of his enemies. The declaration sits between pleas for divine attention to the enemies' plots and a request to observe their daily mockery.
The words — The verse hinges on שִׂפְתֵי (sif.tei, "lips") and הֶגְיוֹן (hegyon, "muttering" or "meditation") to mark the calculated, unceasing nature of the assault. These terms function to emphasize the deliberate and continuous verbal hostility directed at the speaker.
The thread — The text aligns with Psalms 59:7 and Psalms 59:12, which catalog sharp words and curses, and echoes the desolation noted in Ezekiel 36:3. This motif of persistent enemy speech appears across these passages as a documented pattern of oppression.
Why it lands — The text records the reality of unrelenting verbal hostility without offering immediate resolution. It asks the reader to acknowledge the weight of sustained attack and to bring the raw fact of the assault before God.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 36:3 therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
- Psalms 59:7 See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
- Psalms 59:12 By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- Psalms 140:3 They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Jeremiah 18:18 Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”