Lamentations 3:50
in Lamentations 3until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
KJV
Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
3 notes on this verseTill the Lord look do: on, and behold from heaven. Disperses and dissipates the cloud that was about him; shines forth and manifests himself, and looks favourably upon his people, and delivers them out of their troubles: this the prophet was in hope of, and was waiting for; but, till it came to pass, could have no rest and comfort. The Targum is, "till he look and behold my injury;'' as if he had regard to his own personal injury done him; but the former sense is best.
This site's exposition
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us
on Lamentations 3:43-51
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied returns to the register of the first two chapters, the corporate voice now describing what the man described of himself. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through names the hardest complaint of the unit, prayer itself apparently blocked, and thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people states the community's status among the nations in the plainest terms the book uses. The unit closes where much of the book closes, mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people, weeping continuing till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven, grief that keeps speaking rather than resolving into silence.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
"If God, who now covers himself with a cloud, as if he took no notice of our troubles ( Job xxii. 13 ), would but shine forth, all would be well; if he look upon us, we shall be saved, " Ps. lxxx. Bad as the case is, one favourable look from heaven will set all to rights.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַד־ | ʾad- | until | H5704 → | 1261 times |
| יַשְׁקִ֣יף | yashkif | he will look down | H8259 → | |
| וְיֵ֔רֶא | veyere' | and he will see | H7200 → | 1300 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| מִשָּׁמָֽיִם׃ | mishamayim | from heaven | H8064 → | 421 times |
עַד־until
ʾad-H5704 →1261 times
יַשְׁקִ֣יףhe will look down
yashkifH8259 →
וְיֵ֔רֶאand he will see
veyere'H7200 →1300 times
יְהוָ֖הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
מִשָּׁמָֽיִם׃from heaven
mishamayimH8064 →421 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
it leads to
- Deuteronomy 26:15
Look down from Your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land You have given us as You swore to our fathers—a land flowing with milk and honey.”
- Jeremiah 31:20
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares…
- Psalms 80:14
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
- Hosea 11:8
How could I give you up, O Ephraim? How could I surrender you, O Israel? How could I make you like Admah? How could I treat you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within…
- Psalms 123:1
I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
- Deuteronomy 26:15
Through
Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
it leads to
- Lamentations 4:10
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Jeremiah 19:9
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Lamentations 4:10
Through
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
it leads to
- Psalms 44:13–16
You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
- Psalms 44:13–16
Where this verse is studied
About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.