Lamentations 3:64

ת (Tav) Pay them back ¹  what they deserve, ²  O Lord, according to what they ³  have done. ⁴ 

biblegateway Lam 3:64

Pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, for what their hands have done.

biblegateway Lam 3:64

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

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Pay them back, LORD, for all the evil they have done.

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"Make them pay for what they've done, GOD. Give them their just deserts.

SABDAweb Lam 3:64

You will give them their reward, O Lord, answering to the work of their hands.

bibleoremus Lam 3:64

Pay them back for their deeds, O LORD, according to the work of their hands!

biblegateway Lam 3:64

Repay them, O LORD, According to the work of their hands.

biblegateway Lam 3:64

ת (Tav) Pay them back ¹  what they deserve, ²  O Lord, according to what they ³  have done. ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “Please cause to return.” The imperfect verb תָּשִׁיב (tashiv), Hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular from שׁוּב (shuv, “to return”), functions in a volitional sense, like an imperative of request. The Hiphil stem of שׁוּב (shuv, in the Hiphil “to cause to return”) often means “to make requital, to pay back” (e.g., Judg 9:5, 56; 1 Sam 25:39; 1 Kgs 2:32, 44; Neh 3:36; Prov 24:12, 29; Hos 12:3; Joel 4:4, 7) (BDB 999 s.v. שׁוּב 4.a).

² tn Heb “recompense to them.” The noun גְּמוּל (gÿmul, “dealing, accomplishment”) has two metonymical (cause-effect) meanings: (1) positive “benefit” and (2) negative “retribution, requital, recompense,” the sense used here (e.g., Pss 28:4; 94:2; 137:8; Prov 19:17; Isa 35:4; 59:18; 66:6; Jer 51:6; Lam 3:64; Joel 4:4, 7). The phrase תָּשִׁיב גְּמוּל (tashiv gÿmul) means “to pay back retribution” (e.g., Joel 4:4, 7), that is, to return the deeds of the wicked upon them as a display of talionic or poetic justice.

³ tn Heb “their hands.” The term “hand” is a synecdoche of part (= hands) for the whole person (= they).

⁴ tn Heb “according to the work of their hands.”