What Does Psalms 28:4 Mean?

“Give”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

they (only used when emphatic)

“them according to their deeds”

an act or work (concretely)

“and according to the wickedness”

badness (as marring), physically or morally

“of their endeavours”

an act (good or bad)

“them after the work”

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

“of their hands”

a 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

“Give”

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

they (only used when emphatic)

“render”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“to them their desert”

treatment, i.e., an act (of good or ill); by implication, service or requital

they (only used when emphatic)