Lamentations 3:64
 Lamentations 3:64 
New International Version (©2011)
Pay them back what they deserve, LORD, for what their hands have done.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done.

English Standard Version (©2001)
“You will repay them, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
You will recompense them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You will pay them back what they deserve, LORD, according to the work of their hands.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Pay them back, LORD, according to their actions.

NET Bible (©2006)
Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to what they have done.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Pay them back, O LORD, for what they deserve, for what their own hands have done.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

American King James Version
Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

American Standard Version
Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands.

Darby Bible Translation
Render unto them a recompence, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands;

English Revised Version
Thou wilt render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

Webster's Bible Translation
Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

World English Bible
You will render to them a recompense, Yahweh, according to the work of their hands.

Young's Literal Translation
Thou returnest to them the deed, O Jehovah, According to the work of their hands.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:55-66 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 those of the Redeemer? He will deliver his people from every trouble, and revive his church from every persecution. He will save believers with everlasting salvation, while his enemies perish with everlasting destruction.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 64. - Render unto them, etc. The sacred poet is familiar with the psalms; here we have a condensation of Psalm 28:4. The tone of vers. 64-66 reminds us of passages in the Book of Jeremiah (see Jeremiah 18:23; Jeremiah 20:12);


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

64-66. (Jer 11:20; 2Ti 4:14).


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A Prayer for Deliverance
63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music. 64Render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. 65Give them sorrow of heart, your curse to them.

Psalm 28:4 Repay them for their deeds and for their evil work; repay them for what their hands have done and bring back on them what they deserve.
Jeremiah 51:6 "Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the LORD's vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
Jeremiah 51:24 "Before your eyes I will repay Babylon and all who live in Babylonia for all the wrong they have done in Zion," declares the LORD.