Lamentations 3:63

63 Look on their 1sitting and their rising; 2I am their mocking song.

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 You have heard their reproach, O LORD , All their schemes against me.
62 The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.
63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
64 You will recompense them, O LORD , According to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them hardness of heart, Your curse will be on them.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Psalms 139:2
  • 2. Job 30:9; Lamentations 3:14
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