Watch them from morning to evening; ¹  I am the object of their mocking songs.

biblegateway Lam 3:63

Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.

When they sit and when they rise, look, I am mocked by their songs.

Look at them! Whether they are sitting or standing, they make fun of me in their songs.

biblegateway Lam 3:63

Look at them! Sitting or standing, they mock me in their songs.

Behold their sitting and their rising; I am the object of their taunts.

bibleoremus Lam 3:63

Whether they sit or rise—see, I am the object of their taunt-songs.

See how, whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their taunts.

biblegateway Lam 3:63

Look at their sitting down and their rising up; I am their taunting song.

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.

biblegateway Lam 3:63

Watch them from morning to evening; ¹  I am the object of their mocking songs.

¹ tn Heb “their rising and their sitting.” The two terms שִׁבְתָּם וְקִימָתָם (shivtam vÿqimatam, “their sitting and their rising”) form a merism: two terms that are polar opposites are used to encompass everything in between. The idiom “from your rising to your sitting” refers to the earliest action in the morning and the latest action in the evening (e.g., Deut 6:7; Ps 139:3). The enemies mock Jerusalem from the moment they arise in the morning until the moment they sit down in the evening.