Klagelieder 3:63

63 Schaue an ihr Sitzen und ihr Aufstehen! Ich bin ihr Saitenspiel.

Klagelieder 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mtnygnm) "musicus", Gataker.

Klagelieder 3:63 In-Context

61 Jehova, du hast ihr Schmähen gehört, alle ihre Anschläge wider mich,

62 das Gerede derer, die wider mich aufgestanden sind, und ihr Sinnen wider mich den ganzen Tag.

63 Schaue an ihr Sitzen und ihr Aufstehen! Ich bin ihr Saitenspiel.

64 Jehova, erstatte ihnen Vergeltung nach dem Werke ihrer Hände!

65 Gib ihnen Verblendung des Herzens, dein Fluch komme über sie!