Lamentations 3:50
till LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
In Context
49My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,
51My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
Cross References
Psalms 80:15and the stock which thy right hand planted, and the branch that thou made strong for thyself.
Isaiah 62:6I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem. They shall never keep silent day nor night. Ye who are LORD's reminders, take ye no rest,
Isaiah 64:1Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou would come down, that the mountains might quake at thy presence,
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:43-55
Complaining to God. ( b. c. 588.) 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned. 43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied. 44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 45 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. 48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of… Read the whole commentary →