John Gill Commentary Lamentations 3:59

"O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause." — Lamentations 3:59 (ASV)

O Lord, you have seen my wrong
Or, "my perverseness" {w}; not that he or they had been guilty of; but the wrong that was done to him and them by their enemies; how perverse and ill natured they had been to them; how badly they had used them; what injuries they had done them; none of which escaped the omniscience of God, to which the appeal is made; and upon this follows a petition: judge you my cause ;
the present one; as you have pleaded and judged many already, do me justice, right my wrongs, and save me from my enemies; and let it appear to all the world my cause is just, and they are in the wrong.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F23: (yttwe) "perversitatem", Pagninus, Montanus; "quae exercetur, vel exercebatur in me", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.