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Lamentations 3:63

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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
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  1. Psalms 139:2Rank 1 from verse 63
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    2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

  2. Lamentations 3:14Rank 2 from verse 63
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    14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.

  3. Job 30:9Rank 3 from verse 63
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    9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

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Lamentations 3:63

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behold

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1. Used as an attention word or command directing someone to look at or take notice of the person, thing, statement, or event presented: look; see; take notice. 2. As a verb, to look upon, see, observe, or witness.

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rising

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of rise: getting up, ascending, appearing, increasing, beginning, proceeding to act, attaining authority, or returning from the dead. Sense 2: A raised or swollen area, especially in the skin.

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musick

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1. Vocal or instrumental sound or performance. 2. Instruments or performers of musick. 3. Figuratively, a person made the subject of song or ridicule.

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62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

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64¶ Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

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