Lamentations 3:58 Meaning and Explanation
“O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Lamentations 3:58 Mean?
Now praise breaks out for what God has done: 'O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul.' God has become the sufferer's advocate, taking up his case as a kinsman defender pleads for one who cannot defend himself. The God who seemed against him is revealed as the One arguing on his behalf.
'Thou hast redeemed my life.' To redeem is to buy back, to rescue out of bondage or death, the work of the kinsman-redeemer who steps in to save a relative in distress. God has redeemed the sufferer's very life from the pit. Christians hear in this word the great theme of redemption that runs to its fullness in the One who would redeem not one life but the world. Here, already, God is known as the Redeemer who pleads for his own and buys their lives back from death.
Lamentations 3:58 in the Original Language
ga'al (גָּאַל), 'redeemed' -- to buy back as a kinsman, rescuing a relative from bondage or death.
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What does Lamentations 3:58 mean?
The LORD has taken up the sufferer's cause and redeemed his life.