Lamentations 3:64

64 ¹“You will repay them, ^[a] O Lord, ²according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:64 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:64

Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work
of their hands.
] The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render this, and the following verses, not as petitions, but as prophecies of what should be; but they seem rather to be expressed by way of request; and here, that God would deal with them according to the law of retaliation, and requite them according to what they had done; that he would do to them as they had done to the Lord's people, and others; and this is ordered to be done particularly to the Chaldeans, or Babylonians, ( Jeremiah 50:15 Jeremiah 50:29 ) .

Lamentations 3:64 In-Context

62 The lips and thoughts of my assailants are against me all the day long.

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

64 “You will repay them, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.

66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them from under your heavens, O Lord. ”

Cross References

• 1. 3:64 See Jer. 11:20
• 2. 3:64 Ps. 28:4; [2 Tim. 4:14]

Footnotes

• [a] 3:64 Or 'Repay them'