Lamentations 3:63

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

Lamentations 3:63 in Other Translations

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

63 Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.

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

63 Sitting down or standing up - just look at them! - they mock me with vulgar doggerel.

63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

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

63 When they sit and when they rise, look, I am mocked by their songs.

63 Just look at them sitting and standing there! They sing and make fun of me.

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (Mtnygnm) "musicus", Gataker.

Lamentations 3:63 In-Context

61 LORD, you have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

62 what my enemies whisper and mutter against me all day long.

63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

64 Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.

65 Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!

Cross References

• 1. S Job 30:9