Lamentations 3:64
Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
In Context
63Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.
65Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.
Cross References
Psalms 28:4Give them according to their work, and according to the wickedness of their doings. Give them after the operation of their hands. Render to them their recompense,
Jeremiah 15:15O LORD, thou know. Remember me, and visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. Take me not away in thy longsuffering. Know that for thy sake I have suffered reproach.
Jeremiah 51:56For the destroyer has come upon her, even upon Babylon, and her mighty men are taken. Their bows are broken in pieces. For LORD is a God of recompenses; he will surely requite.
Revelation 6:10And they cried out in a great voice, saying, Master, Holy and True, how long do thou not judge and avenge our blood from those who dwell on the earth?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:56-66
God's Goodness Acknowledged; An Appeal to God. ( b. c. 588.) 55 I called upon thy name, O Lord , out of the low dungeon. 56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. 57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O Lord , thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. 61 Thou hast heard their… Read the whole commentary →