Lamentations 3 · Verse 50

Lamentations 3:50

Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3:50, King James Version

Lamentations 3:50 in other translations

BSBuntil the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
WEBuntil the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
ASVTill Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
YLTTill Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens,
DARBYtill Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
BBETill the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.
WebsterTill the LORD shall look down, and behold from heaven.

What does Lamentations 3:50 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Lamentations 3:49-51

49-51. without ... intermission--or else, "because there is no intermission" [Piscator], namely, of my miseries.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 3:42-54

The more the prophet looked on the desolations, the more he was grieved. Here is one word of comfort. While they continued weeping, they continued waiting; and neither did nor would expect relief and succour from any but the Lord.

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Lamentations 3:50 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
יַשְׁקִ֣יףyash.Kifhe will look downH8259
וְיֵ֔רֶאve.Ye.re'and he will seeH7200
יְהוָ֖הYah.wehYahwehH3068
מִשָּׁמָֽיִם\׃mi.sha.Ma.yimfrom heavenH8064

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Lamentations 3:50

  • Isaiah 63:15

    Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?

  • Psalms 80:14-16

    Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself. It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.

  • Lamentations 5:1

    Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

  • Psalms 102:19-20

    For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

  • Lamentations 2:20

    Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

  • Daniel 9:16-19

    O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.

  • Isaiah 62:6-7

    I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

  • Isaiah 64:1

    Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:20; 5:1; Ps 80:14-16; 102:19,20; Isa 62:6,7; 63:15; 64:1
Da 9:16-19

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Context

  • Lamentations 3:49

    Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

  • Lamentations 3:50

    Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

  • Lamentations 3:51

    Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

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Lamentations 3:50 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Hasta que Jehová mire y vea desde los cielos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
jusqu’à ce que l’ Éternel regarde et voie des cieux.
German
Elberfelder 1871
bis Jehova vom Himmel herniederschaue und dareinsehe.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Donec respiceret et videret Dominus de cælis.