Lamentations 3:61-63

ש (Sin/Shin)

3:61 You have heard ¹  their taunts, O Lord,

all their plots against me.

3:62 My assailants revile and conspire ² 

against me all day long.

3:63 Watch them from morning to evening; ³ 

I am the object of their mocking songs.

[3:61]  ¹ tn The verb could be understood as a precative (“Hear”).

[3:62]  ² tn Heb “the lips of my assailants and their thoughts.”

[3:63]  ³ 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.