Ratapan 3:64

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

"Engkau akan mengadakan pembalasan terhadap mereka, ya TUHAN, menurut perbuatan tangan mereka.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
"Engkau akan mengadakan pembalasan terhadap mereka, ya TUHAN, menurut perbuatan tangan mereka.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Ya Tuhan, balaslah kiranya kepada mereka itu sekadar perbuatan tangannya!

Contextual Overview

⁵⁵ I called vpon thy name O Lorde out of the deepe pit. ⁵⁶ Thou hast heard my voyce, and hast not turned away thyne eares from my sighing and crying. ⁵⁷ Thou hast inclyned thy selfe vnto me when I called vpon thee: and hast said, feare not. ⁵⁸ Thou (O Lorde) hast mayntayned the cause of my soule, and hast redeemed my lyfe. ⁵⁹ O Lorde, thou hast seene my wrong, take thou my cause vpon thee. ⁶⁰ Thou hast well considered howe they go about to do me harme, and that all their counsels are against me. ⁶¹ Thou hast hearde their despitefull wordes O Lorde, yea and all the imaginations against me: ⁶² The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long. ⁶³ Thou seest also their sitting downe and their rising vp, they make their songes of nothing but of me. ⁶⁴ Rewarde them, O Lorde, according to the workes of their handes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 28:4, Jeremiah 11:20, Jeremiah 50:29, 2 Timothy 4:14, Revelation 6:10, Revelation 18:6

Gill's Notes on the 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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A prayer for deliverance and for vengeance upon his enemies.

Lamentations 3:55

Out of the low dungeon - “The lowest pit” of Psalms 88:6. Some consider that Psalms 69:0 was composed by Jeremiah, and is the prayer referred to here (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, i. e. the controversies which concern his salvation. and rescuing his life, in jeopardy through the malice of his enemies.

Lamentations 3:59

Wrong - Done to him by the perversion of justice.

Lamentations 3:60, Lamentations 3:61

Imaginations - Or, devices.

Lamentations 3:63

Their sitting down, and their rising up - i. e. all the ordinary actions of their life.

Musick - Or, song, “the subject of it.”

Lamentations 3:64-66

The versions render the verbs in these verses as futures, “Thou shalt render unto them a recompence,” etc.

Lamentations 3:65

Give them sorrow of heart - Or, “Thou wilt give them” blindness “of heart.”

Lamentations 3:66

Persecute ... - Or, pursue them in anger and destroy them, etc.