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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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3:55¶ I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low dungeon.

3:56Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

3:57Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

3:58O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

3:59O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

3:60Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.

3:61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;

3:62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

3:63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

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