Lamentations 3:50
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49 My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Without cause my enemies hunted me like a bird.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
- KJV
- Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
- WEB
- until the LORD looks down, and sees from heaven.
- ASV
- Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.
- DARBY
- till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens.
- BLB
- until YHWH looks down and sees from the heavens!
- ÅB
- før Herrens øye ser ned fra himmelen.
- OTB
- Inntil Herren ser og ser fra himmelen.
- B1930
- før Herrens øie ser ned fra himmelen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 63:15
Look 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.
Read in contextPsalms 80:14–16
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
Read in contextLamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Read in contextPsalms 102:19–20
For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
Read in contextLamentations 2:20
Look, 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?
Read in contextDaniel 9:16–19
O 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.
Read in contextIsaiah 62:6–7
On 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,
Read in contextIsaiah 64:1
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
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