Lamentations 3:64

64 Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done.

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 My enemies whisper and mutter as they plot against me all day long.

63 Look at them! Whether they sit or stand, I am the object of their mocking songs.

64 Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done.

65 Give them hard and stubborn hearts, and then let your curse fall on them!

66 Chase them down in your anger, destroying them beneath the LORD ’s heavens.