Lamentations 3:63 Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

◄ Lamentations 3:63 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.