Holy Scripture

Lamentations 3:64

A church father on this verse
“Whence Jeremiah also says: "You will render to them their recompense, O Lord, according to the works of their hands; You will give them as a shield for the heart Your labor." For lest the darts of preaching should penetrate their hearts, since they disdained the labor of His passion, they held that same labor of His a…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 22

Source: Septuagint

Original

64Thou wilt render them a recompense, O Lord, According to the works of their hands.

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62The lips of them that rose up against me, And their plots against me all the day;

63Their sitting down and their rising up: Look thou upon their eyes.

— Lamentations 3:64 —

65Thou wilt give them as a covering, The grief of my heart.

66Thou wilt persecute them in anger, And wilt consume them from under the heaven, O Lord.

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