Lamentations 3:64

64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according 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 of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.

64 Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse to them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.