King James Version
Lamentations 3:64 in the King James Version says “Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.” — study this verse from Lamentations chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.”
Lamentations 3:64 · KJV
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. sorrow: or, obstinacy of heart
Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Render”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“unto them a recompence”
H1576treatment, i.e., an act (of good or ill); by implication, service or requital
“according to the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of their hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
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