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New Living Translation

Lamentations 3:63

Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scorning and Mocking;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When they sit and when they rise, look,I am mocked by their songs.
Hebrew Names Version
See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
King James Version
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
English Standard Version
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.
New American Standard Bible
Look at their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
New Century Version
Look! In everything they do they make fun of me with songs.
Amplified Bible
Look at their sitting and their rising [their actions and secret counsels]; I am their mocking song [the subject of their ridicule].
World English Bible
See you their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
Legacy Standard Bible
Look on their sitting and their rising;I am their mocking song.
Berean Standard Bible
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
Contemporary English Version
No matter what they are doing, they keep on mocking me.
Complete Jewish Bible
See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the butt of their taunts.
Darby Translation
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
Easy-to-Read Version
when they sit down and when they stand up. Look how they make fun of me!
George Lamsa Translation
Behold their conduct and their behavior I do understand, because of their devices.
Good News Translation
From morning till night they make fun of me.
Lexham English Bible
Look at their sitting and their standing, I am their mocking song.
Literal Translation
Look at their sitting and their rising up. I am their song.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou seist also their sittinge downe and their rysinge vp, they make their songes of nothinge but of me.
American Standard Version
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Bible in Basic English
Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
King James Version (1611)
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.
English Revised Version
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Syn. Se thou the sittynge and risyng ayen of hem; Y am the salm of hem.
Update Bible Version
Look at their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
Webster's Bible Translation
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.
New English Translation
Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.
New King James Version
Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.
New Life Bible
Watch their sitting down and standing up. I am their song as they make fun of me.
New Revised Standard
Whether they sit or rise—see, I am the object of their taunt-songs.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
On their downsitting and their uprising, do thou look, I, am their song.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
Revised Standard Version
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the burden of their songs.
Young's Literal Translation
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.

Contextual Overview

55 But I called on your name, Lord , from deep within the pit. 56 You heard me when I cried, "Listen to my pleading! Hear my cry for help!" 57 Yes, you came when I called; you told me, "Do not fear." 58 Lord, you have come to my defense; you have redeemed my life. 59 You have seen the wrong they have done to me, Lord . Be my judge, and prove me right. 60 You have seen the vengeful plots my enemies have laid against me. 61 Lord , you have heard the vile names they call me. You know all about the plans they have made. 62 My enemies whisper and mutter as they plot against me all day long. 63 Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs. 64 Pay them back, Lord , for all the evil they have done.

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.


 
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