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

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64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.

65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the Lord.

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64 (A)“You will repay them,[a] O Lord,
    (B)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 (C)destroy them
    from under (D)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