Lamentations 3:63

63 See thou the sitting and (the) rising again of them; I am the psalm of them (I am their song of mocking).

Lamentations 3:63 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:63

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" F26; as Samson was to the Philistines; the matter of their mirth; the subject of their song; and the object of their derision.


FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mtnygnm) "musicus", Gataker.

Lamentations 3:63 In-Context

61 Lord, thou heardest the shames of them (Lord, thou heardest their abuse); all the thoughts of them against me.
62 The lips of men rising against me, and the thoughts of them against me all day (long).
63 See thou the sitting and (the) rising again of them; I am the psalm of them (I am their song of mocking).
64 Lord, thou shalt yield while to them, by the works of their hands. (Lord, thou shalt punish them, according to the works of their hands.)
65 Thou shalt give to them the shield of heart, thy travail. (Give thou them much sorrow of heart, and thy trials and tribulation.)
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