Lamentations 3:65 (LSB)

Passage

You will give them dullness of heart; Your curse will be on them.

Nearby Context

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

The nearby context moves from verse 64's "You will recompense them O Yahweh According..." into verse 66's "You will pursue them in anger and...", so "give" and "dullness" 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 "give" and "dullness" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.