Lamentations 3:65 (ASV)

Passage

Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their song.

Lamentations 3:64 Thou wilt render unto them a recompense, O Jehovah, according to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65 Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, thy curse unto them.

Lamentations 3:66 Thou wilt pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thou", "wilt", "give", "hardness", "heart", and "curse". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thou" and "wilt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 64's "Thou wilt render unto them a recompense..." into verse 66's "Thou wilt pursue them in anger and...", so "thou" and "wilt" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thou" and "wilt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.