Lamentations 3:50

Modern

…until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

Traditional

Till the Lord look down, and behold from heaven.

Literal

…until YHWH looks down and sees from the heavens!

Latin

Donec respiceret et videret Dominus de cælis.

Hebrew

English

…until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

The author emphasizes how cruel the enemies are and cries out to the Lord for help.

In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:1–20, 48–54). In this chapter, the author mourns what has happened (Lamentations 3:21–25). He explains how God’s people should respond (Lamentations 3:26–47). Finally, he calls out to the Lord in prayer (Lamentations 3:55–66).

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.
Psalm 80:14–16
Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—
Psalm 102:19–20
For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth
Lamentations 5:1
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
Isaiah 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,
Daniel 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.
Isaiah 64:1
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Lamentations 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?