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Lamentations 3:63

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3:63Watch them from morning to evening;127

I am the object of their mocking songs.

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Footnotes

  1. 127 Heb “their rising and their sitting.” The two terms שִׁבְתָּם וְקִימָתָם (shivtam véqimatam, “their sitting and their rising”) form a merism: two terms that are polar opposites are used to encompass everything in between. The idiom “from your rising to your sitting” refers to the earliest action in the morning and the latest action in the evening (e.g., Deut 6:7; Ps 139:3). The enemies mock Jerusalem from the moment they arise in the morning until the moment they sit down in the evening.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Behold their sitting and their rising;

I am the object of their taunts.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Look at them! Sitting or standing,

they mock me in their songs.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When they sit and when they rise, look,

I am mocked by their songs.

NLTNew Living Translation

Look at them! Whether they sit or stand,

I am the object of their mocking songs.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Look at their sitting and their standing,

I am their mocking song.

KJV 1900King James Version

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