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God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:50

In 11 translations

BSB
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
KJV
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
WEB
until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.
ASV
Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
LSV
Until YHWH looks and sees from the heavens,
YLT
Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
DBY
till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
DRC
Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the heavens.
GNV
Till the Lord looke downe, and beholde from heauen.
JPS
Till the LORD look forth, and behold from heaven.
LXXE
until the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

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Original-language editions

WLC
עַד־יַשְׁקִ֣יף וְיֵ֔רֶא יְהוָ֖ה מִשָּׁמָֽיִם׃
LXX-Br
ἕως οὗ διακύψῃ καὶ ἴδῃ Κύριος ἐξ οὐρανοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
  • Psalms 102:19–20For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth to hear a prisoner’s groaning, to release those condemned to death,
  • Psalms 80:14–16Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine— the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself. Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at…
  • Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
  • Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
  • Daniel 9:16–19O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and…
  • Isaiah 62:6–7On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves, nor give Him any rest until He establishes Jerusalem and makes her…
  • Isaiah 64:1If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,

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