Lamentations 3:63
Hebrew Text— Lamentations 3:63You see their sitting down and their rising up. I am their song.
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You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, “Why do you think evil in your hearts?
But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
Yahweh, you have persuaded me, and I was persuaded. You are stronger than I, and have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all day. Everyone mocks me.
Yahweh knows the thoughts of man, that they are futile.
You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar.
I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all day long.
throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
“I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be restrained.
Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.
But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?
She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.’
It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I promised them.”
One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.
You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.
But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
For wasn’t Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves? For as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.
You have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the middle of the peoples.
“ ‘ “That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “It will happen in that day that things will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
Indeed, who despises the day of small things? For these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are Yahweh’s eyes, which run back and forth through the whole earth.”
Immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you reason these things in your hearts?
Jesus, perceiving the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Are you he of whom I spoke in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days for years that I would bring you against them?
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.