Lamentations 3:63
in Lamentations 3When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
KJV
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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This verse in Lamentations 3
Commentary
2 notes on this verseBehold their sitting down, and their rising up,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psa 139:2; but that is not barely here meant; but that he would take particular notice hereof, and punish for the same.
This site's exposition
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause
on Lamentations 3:59-66
O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause turns the chapter's last unit toward the enemies who chased and mocked the sufferer, the case brought to the Judge rather than settled by the sufferer himself. Thou hast heard their reproach and their imaginations against me, the lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day, catalogues the hostility in detail before the closing plea. Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands asks for exact justice rather than excess, and persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord closes the chapter on the same imprecatory note that closed chapter 1, the bench reading these prayers as appeals to God's own justice rather than private vengeance, the sufferer's case handed over rather than taken into his own hands.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁבְתָּ֤ם | shivtam | sitting their | H7675 → | |
| וְקִֽימָתָם֙ | vekimatam | and rising their | H7012 → | |
| הַבִּ֔יטָה | habitah | look at ! | H5027 → | 69 times |
| אֲנִ֖י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ ס | manginatam | [am] mocking song their | H4485 → |
שִׁבְתָּ֤םsitting their
shivtamH7675 →
וְקִֽימָתָם֙and rising their
vekimatamH7012 →
הַבִּ֔יטָהlook at !
habitahH5027 →69 times
אֲנִ֖יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃ ס[am] mocking song their
manginatamH4485 →
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
Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
it leads to
- Matthew 9:4
But Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, “Why do you harbor evil in your hearts?
- 2 Kings 19:27
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Isaiah 37:28
But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
- Luke 9:47
But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts, had a little child stand beside Him.
- Psalms 94:11
The LORD knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
- Matthew 9:4
Through
Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
it leads to
- Job 17:6
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
- Lamentations 3:14
I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
- Job 17:6
Through
Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 20:7
You have deceived me, O LORD, and I was deceived. You have overcome me and prevailed. I am a laughingstock all day long; everyone mocks me.
- Jeremiah 20:7
Where this verse is studied
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.