61 (A)“You have heard their taunts, O Lord,
    all (B)their plots against me.
62 The lips and thoughts (C)of my assailants
    are against me all the day long.
63 (D)Behold their sitting and their rising;
    (E)I am the object of their taunts.

64 (F)“You will repay them,[a] O Lord,
    (G)according to the work of their hands.
65 You will give them[b] dullness of heart;
    your curse will be[c] on them.
66 You will pursue them[d] in anger and (H)destroy them
    from under (I)your heavens, O Lord.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:64 Or Repay them
  2. Lamentations 3:65 Or Give them
  3. Lamentations 3:65 Or place your curse
  4. Lamentations 3:66 Or Pursue them
  5. Lamentations 3:66 Syriac (compare Septuagint, Vulgate); Hebrew the heavens of the Lord

61 Lord, you have heard their insults,(A)
    all their plots against me—
62 what my enemies whisper and mutter
    against me all day long.(B)
63 Look at them! Sitting or standing,
    they mock me in their songs.(C)

64 Pay them back what they deserve, Lord,
    for what their hands have done.(D)
65 Put a veil over their hearts,(E)
    and may your curse be on them!
66 Pursue(F) them in anger and destroy them
    from under the heavens of the Lord.

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