Lamentations 3:64 (LSB)

Passage

You will recompense them, O Yahweh, According to the work of their hands.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 3:62 The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Lamentations 3:63 Look on their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.

Lamentations 3:64 You will recompense them, O Yahweh, According to the work of their hands.

Lamentations 3:65 You will give them dullness of heart; Your curse will be on them.

Lamentations 3:66 You will pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of Yahweh!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "recompense", "yahweh", and "hands". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "recompense" and "yahweh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 63's "Look on their sitting and their rising..." into verse 65's "You will give them dullness of heart...", so "recompense" and "yahweh" 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 "recompense" and "yahweh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.