Berean Standard Bible
Lamentations 3:50
50until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
Lamentations 3:50 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.
- New International Version (NIV)until the Lord looks down from heaven and sees.
- English Standard Version (ESV)until the Lord from heaven looks down and sees;
- New King James Version (NKJV)Till the Lord from heaven Looks down and sees.
Context of Lamentations 3:50
48Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. 49My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief, until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees. 51My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city. 52Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
Read all of Lamentations 3Lamentations 3:50 word by word
עַד־יַשְׁקִ֣יף וְיֵ֔רֶא יְהוָ֖ה מִשָּׁמָֽיִם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Lamentations 3:50
- Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
- Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
- Psalms 80:14Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
- Psalms 102:19For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
- Isaiah 62:6On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have posted watchmen; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD shall take no rest for yourselves,
- Isaiah 63:15Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
- Isaiah 4:1In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”
- Daniel 9:16O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:50
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 48-51Verses 48-51 The deep sympathy of the prophet, which pours itself forth in abundant tears over the distress of his people. Lamentations 3:51 Or, “Mine eye” causeth pain to my soul, i. e. maketh my soul ache, because of the sad fate of the maidens (Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 1:18, ).Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 42-54Verses 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.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 48-66The author emphasizes how cruel the enemies are and cries out to the Lord for help.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 49-5149-51. without ... intermission--or else, "because there is no intermission" [Piscator], namely, of my miseries.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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