Lamentations 3:63
 Lamentations 3:63 
New International Version (©2011)
Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When they sit and when they rise, look, I am mocked by their songs.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Watch! Whether they sit down or stand up, they mock me with their songs.

NET Bible (©2006)
Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

American King James Version
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

American Standard Version
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up, I am their song.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up: I am their song.

English Revised Version
Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

Webster's Bible Translation
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

World English Bible
You see their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

Young's Literal Translation
Their sitting down, and their rising up, Behold attentively, I am their song.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:55-66 Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life. He silenced their fears, and quieted their spirits. Thou saidst, Fear not. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. And what are all our sorrows, compared with those of the Redeemer? He will deliver his people from every trouble, and revive his church from every persecution. He will save believers with everlasting salvation, while his enemies perish with everlasting destruction.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 63. - Their sitting down, and their rising up. Elsewhere the phrase is a comprehensive expression for all a man's occupations (comp. Psalm 139:2; Isaiah 37:28). I am their music; rather, their song; i.e. the subject of their taunting songs, p. in the parallel passage, Job 30:9; comas Psalm 69:12 (Hebrew, 13).


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up,.... All their actions; the whole course of their lives; all which fell under the divine omniscience, Psalm 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" (z); as Samson was to the Philistines; the matter of their mirth; the subject of their song; and the object of their derision.

(z) "musicus", Gataker.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

63. sitting down … rising up—whether they sit or rise, that is, whether they be actively engaged or sedentary, and at rest "all the day" (La 3:62), I am the subject of their derisive songs (La 3:14).

Tau.


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A Prayer for Deliverance
62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. …

Job 30:9 "And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
Psalm 139:2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
Lamentations 3:14 I became the laughingstock of all my people; they mock me in song all day long.