Lamentations 3:58
Strong's Lexicon
You defend
רַ֧בְתָּ (raḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7378: 1) to strive, contend 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to strive 1a1a) physically 1a1b) with words 1a2) to conduct a case or suit (legal), sue 1a3) to make complaint 1a4) to quarrel 1b) (Hiphil) to contend against

my
נַפְשִׁ֖י (nap̄·šî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 5315: 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious

cause,
רִיבֵ֥י (rî·ḇê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7379: 1) strife, controversy, dispute 1a) strife, quarrel 1b) dispute, controversy, case at law

O Lord;
אֲדֹנָ֛י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 136: 1) my lord, lord 1a) of men 1b) of God 2) Lord-title, spoken in place of Yahweh in Jewish display of reverence

You redeem
גָּאַ֥לְתָּ (gā·’al·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1350: 1) to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to act as kinsman, do the part of next of kin, act as kinsman-redeemer 1a1a) by marrying brother's widow to beget a child for him, to redeem from slavery, to redeem land, to exact vengeance 1a2) to redeem (by payment) 1a3) to redeem (with God as subject) 1a3a) individuals from death 1a3b) Israel from Egyptian bondage 1a3c) Israel from exile 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to redeem oneself 1b2) to be redeemed

my life.
חַיָּֽי׃ (ḥay·yāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2416: adj 1) living, alive 1a) green (of vegetation) 1b) flowing, fresh (of water) 1c) lively, active (of man) 1d) reviving (of the springtime) n m 2) relatives 3) life (abstract emphatic) 3a) life 3b) sustenance, maintenance n f 4) living thing, animal 4a) animal 4b) life 4c) appetite 4d) revival, renewal 5) community

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You defend my cause, Lord; You redeem my life.

New American Standard Bible
O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.

King James Bible
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

New Living Translation
Lord, you are my lawyer! Plead my case! For you have redeemed my life.

English Standard Version
“You have taken up my cause, O Lord; you have redeemed my life.

New American Standard Bible
O Lord, You have pleaded my soul's cause; You have redeemed my life.

King James Bible
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You defend my cause, Lord; You redeem my life.

International Standard Version
Lord, you have defended my cause; you have redeemed my life.

NET Bible
O Lord, you championed my cause, you redeemed my life.

American Standard Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

English Revised Version
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou hast pleaded, O Lord, the pleadings of my soul, Thou hast redeemed my life.
















Cross References
Psalm 34:22
The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

Jeremiah 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; the LORD of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Lamentations 1:1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

Lamentations 3:57
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Lamentations 3:55
I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

Lamentations 3:59
O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

Lamentations 3:60
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

Lamentations 3:61
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
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