64Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.
But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
Call together the archers against Babylon: all ye that bend the bow, camp against it round about; let none thereof escape: recompense her according to her work; according to all that she hath done, do unto her: for she hath been proud against the LORD, against the Holy One of Israel.
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 55-65)We may observe throughout this chapter a struggle in the prophet’s breast between sense and faith, fear and hope; he complains and then comforts himself, yet drops his comforts and returns again to his complaints, as Ps. 42:1-11. But, as there, so here, faith gets the last word and comes off a conqueror; for in these verses he concludes with some comfort. And here are two things with which he comf…
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