Lamentations 3:50
AIN. until the Lord looked down and saw from the heavens.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
In Context
49AIN. My eye has been afflicted, and it has not been quieted, because there would be no rest
51AIN. My eye has exhausted my soul over every one of the daughters of my city.
Cross References
Psalms 80:15I would have humbled their enemies, as if it were nothing, and I would have sent my hand upon those who troubled them.
Isaiah 62:6Upon your walls, O Jerusalem, I have stationed watchmen all day and all night unceasingly; they will not be silent. You who are mindful of the Lord, you should not be silent,
Isaiah 64:1I wish that you would rend the heavens, and then descend! The mountains would flow away before your face.
Lamentations 5:1Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace.
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 →