the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Lamentations 3:63
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When they sit and when they rise, look,I am mocked by their songs.
See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Look at their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
Look! In everything they do they make fun of me with songs.
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels]; I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
Look on their sitting and their rising;I am their mocking song.
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
No matter what they are doing, they keep on mocking me.
See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunts.
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
when they sit down and when they stand up. Look how they make fun of me!
Behold their conduct and their behavior I do understand, because of their devices.
From morning till night they make fun of me.
Look at their sitting and their standing, I am their mocking song.
Look at their sitting and their rising up. I am their song.
Thou seist also their sittinge downe and their rysinge vp, they make their songes of nothinge but of me.
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me.
their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Syn. Se thou the sittynge and risyng ayen of hem; Y am the salm of hem.
Look at their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.
Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.
Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.
Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.
Watch their sitting down and standing up. I am their song as they make fun of me.
Whether they sit or rise—see, I am the object of their taunt-songs.
On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.
Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the burden of their songs.
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
their sitting: Psalms 139:2
I am: Lamentations 3:14, Job 30:9
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psalms 139:2; but that is not barely here meant; but that he would take particular notice hereof, and punish for the same. It may have respect both to their lying down at night, and rising in the morning; and to their sitting down at meals, and rising from them; at which times they were always meditating mischief against the people of God, or speaking opprobriously of them; when they made sport of them, as follows:
I [am] their music; or "music maker" z; as Samson was to the Philistines; the matter of their mirth; the subject of their song; and the object of their derision.
z מנגינתם "musicus", Gataker.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.
Lamentations 3:55
Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (Jeremiah 38:6 note).
Lamentations 3:56
Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief.
Lamentations 3:58
God now appears as the prophet’s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.
Lamentations 3:59
Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.
Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61
Imaginations - Or, devices.
Lamentations 3:63
Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.
Musick - Or, song, “the subject of it.”
Lamentations 3:64-66
The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, “Thou shalt render unto them a recompence,” etc.
Lamentations 3:65
Give them sorrow of heart - Or, “Thou wilt give them” blindness “of heart.”
Lamentations 3:66
Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.
