Lamentations 3:34
New International Version
To crush underfoot all prisoners in the land,

New Living Translation
If people crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

English Standard Version
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the earth,

Berean Standard Bible
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

King James Bible
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

New King James Version
To crush under one’s feet All the prisoners of the earth,

New American Standard Bible
To crush under one’s feet All the prisoners of the land,

NASB 1995
To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

NASB 1977
To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

Legacy Standard Bible
To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

Amplified Bible
To trample and crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

Christian Standard Bible
Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Crushing all the prisoners of the land beneath one’s feet,

American Standard Version
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Lamed To subdue under his feet all the prisoners of Earth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
LAMED. To bring down under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

Contemporary English Version
Don't trample prisoners under your feet

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land,

English Revised Version
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
crush any prisoner on earth underfoot,

Good News Translation
The Lord knows when our spirits are crushed in prison;

International Standard Version
When any of the prisoners of the earth are crushed underfoot,

JPS Tanakh 1917
To crush under foot All the prisoners of the earth,

Literal Standard Version
To bruise under one’s feet any bound ones of earth,

Majority Standard Bible
To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

New American Bible
That someone tramples underfoot all the prisoners in the land,

NET Bible
To crush underfoot all the earth's prisoners,

New Revised Standard Version
When all the prisoners of the land are crushed under foot,

New Heart English Bible
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth;

Webster's Bible Translation
To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

World English Bible
To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

Young's Literal Translation
To bruise under one's feet any bound ones of earth,

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Context
Jeremiah's Hope
33For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men. 34To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land, 35to deny a man justice before the Most High,…

Cross References
Lamentations 3:33
For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.

Lamentations 3:35
to deny a man justice before the Most High,


Treasury of Scripture

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

crush

Isaiah 51:22,23
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again: …

Jeremiah 50:17,33,34
Israel is a scattered sheep; the lions have driven him away: first the king of Assyria hath devoured him; and last this Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath broken his bones…

Jeremiah 51:33-36
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come…

all

Psalm 69:33
For the LORD heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

Psalm 79:11
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

Psalm 102:20
To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

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Lamentations 3
1. The prophet bewails his own calamities
22. By the mercies of God, he nourishes his hope
37. He acknowledges God's justice
55. He prays for deliverance
64. And vengeance on his enemies














(34-36) To crush . . .--The triplet of verses forms one sentence dependent upon the final clause, "The Lord approveth not," literally, doth not look on. By some critics the literal meaning is kept in the form of a question: Doth not the Lord look on this? The fact that the righteous judgment of God is against those who, unlike Him, cause wilful and needless suffering is another ground of hope to the sufferer. The three forms of evil specified are (1) the cruel treatment of prisoners of war, such as Jeremiah had witnessed daily at the hands of the Chaldeans; (2) the perversion of justice in a public tribunal acting in the name of God (Exodus 23:6); (3) every form even of private injustice.

Verses 34-39. - These two triads form a transition to the renewed complaints and appeals for help in the following verses. The first triad is probably an amplification of the statement that "the Lord doth not afflict willingly." This being the case, the injustice which darkens human life cannot be approved by him. Verse 34. - To crush, etc. With manifest reference to the cruelties of the Babylonian conquerors of the Jews.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
To crush
לְדַכֵּא֙ (lə·ḏak·kê)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's 1792: To crumble, to bruise

underfoot
תַּ֣חַת (ta·ḥaṯ)
Preposition
Strong's 8478: The bottom, below, in lieu of

all
כֹּ֖ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the prisoners
אֲסִ֥ירֵי (’ă·sî·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 615: A bondman, prisoner

of the land,
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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