Lamentations 3:63

63 Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.

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 Listen to their insults, all their plots against me.
62 The words and thoughts of those who attack me are directed against me all day long.
63 Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.
64 Pay them back, O LORD, for what they deserve, for what their own hands have done.
65 Make them stubborn. Let your curse be on them.
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