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God’s Justice

Lamentations 3:63

In 11 translations

BSB
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
KJV
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
WEB
You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
ASV
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
LSV
Their sitting down, and their rising up, || Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
YLT
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I [am] their song.
DBY
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.
DRC
Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.
GNV
Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, how I am their song.
JPS
Behold Thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.
LXXE
their sitting down and their rising up: look thou upon their eyes.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
שִׁבְתָּ֤ם וְקִֽימָתָם֙ הַבִּ֔יטָה אֲנִ֖י מַנְגִּינָתָֽם׃
LXX-Br
καθέδραν αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀνάστασιν αὐτῶν· ἐπίβλεψον ἐπὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς αὐτῶν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 139:2You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.
  • Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
  • Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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