New English Translation
Lamentations 3:65
65Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them!
Lamentations 3:65 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
- New International Version (NIV)Put a veil over their hearts, and may your curse be on them!
- English Standard Version (ESV)You will give them dullness of heart; your curse will be on them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Give them a veiled heart; Your curse be upon them!
Context of Lamentations 3:65
63Watch them from morning to evening; I am the object of their mocking songs. ת (Tav) 64Pay them back what they deserve, O Lord, according to what they have done. Give them a distraught heart; may your curse be on them! 66Pursue them in anger and eradicate them from under the Lord’s heaven.
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תִּתֵּ֤ן לָהֶם֙ מְגִנַּת־לֵ֔ב תַּאֲלָֽתְךָ֖ לָהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Lamentations 3:65
- Deuteronomy 2:30But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our God had made him obstinate and stubborn so that he might deliver him over to you this very day.
- Isaiah 6:10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the one who makes a carved or metal image – something abhorrent to the Lord, the work of the craftsman – and sets it up in a secret place.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
- Psalms 109:17He loved to curse others, so those curses have come upon him. He had no desire to bless anyone, so he has experienced no blessings.
- 1 Corinthians 16:22Let anyone who has no love for the Lord be accursed. Our Lord, come!
Commentaries on Lamentations 3:65
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 65Give them sorrow of heart - They shall have a callous heart, covered with obstinacy, and thy execration. The former is their state, the latter their fate. This is the consequence of their hardening their hearts from thy fear. Blayney translates, "Thou wilt give with a hearty concordance thy curse unto them." That is, Thou wilt give it to them freely, and without reserve; intimating that God felt no longer any bowels of compassion for them. Formerly he…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 55-66Verses 55-66 A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies. Lamentations 3:55 Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalm 88:6. Some consider that Jeremiah 38:6 note). Lamentations 3:56 Thou hast heard - In sending Ebedmelech to deliver me. The next clause signifies “Hide not thine ear to my relief to my cry,” i. e. to my cry for relief. Lamentations 3:58 God now appears as the prophet‘s next of kin, pleading the lawsuits of his soul…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 55-66Verses 55-66 Faith comes off conqueror, for in these verses the prophet concludes with some comfort. Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life. He silenced their fears, and quieted their spirits. Thou saidst, Fear not. This was the language of God's grace, by the witness of his Spirit with their spirits. And what are all our sorrows, compared with…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 64-66This prayer for vengeance is similar to several psalms (see “Prayers for Vengeance” Theme Note).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 64-6664-66. (Jr 11:20; 2Ti 4:14).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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