Lamentations 3:50
Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
Lamentations 3:50 in other translations
| BSB | until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. |
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| WEB | until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven. |
| ASV | Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven. |
| YLT | Till Jehovah looketh and seeth from the heavens, |
| DARBY | till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens. |
| BBE | Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven. |
| Webster | Till 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.
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.
Lamentations 3:50 in the original Hebrew
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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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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.
Lamentations 3:50 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Hasta que Jehová mire y vea desde los cielos. |
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| 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. |