KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Lamentations 3:61–65
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Lamentations 3:61
61Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me;
61Thou hast heard their reproch, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me:
Lamentations 3:62
62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
62The lippes of those that rose vp against me, and their deuice against me all the day.
Lamentations 3:63
63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
63Behold, their sitting downe and their rising vp, I am their musicke.
Lamentations 3:64
64¶ Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.
64¶ Render vnto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the worke of their hands.
Lamentations 3:65
65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
65‖Giue them sorrow of heart, thy curse vnto them.
- Or, obstinacie of heart.
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DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:61
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Shame; infamy; disgrace. That which is the cause of shame or disgrace.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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imaginations
Thoughts, purposes, plans, or conceptions formed in the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Lamentations 3:62
Arose, stood up, or went upward; also a fragrant flower, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A plan, purpose, design, or contrivance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The period of light between morning and evening; a complete daily cycle; or a specified time, age, or season, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Lamentations 3:63
To look upon or see; as an interjection, look or take notice.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Being seated, remaining, dwelling, or holding a place.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The act of getting up, ascending, or coming forth; an uprising, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Lamentations 3:64
To return; to pay back. To give.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
recompence
An older spelling of recompense: compensation, reward, repayment, or amends.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The end parts of the arms used for holding and working; also figures of power, possession, agency, or aid.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Lamentations 3:65
To grant, hand, offer, supply, yield, or cause to have.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Grief, mental pain, distress, or mourning; also to grieve.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To utter a wish of evil against one; to imprecate evil upon; to call for mischief or injury to fall upon; to execrate.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 61
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Open the full verse study1REMEMBER, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
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Open the full verse study50Remember, Lord, the reproach of thy servants; how I do bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people;
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Open the full verse study8¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border.
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Open the full verse study18Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
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Open the full verse study30He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
From verse 62
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Open the full verse study3Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
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Open the full verse study3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Open the full verse study12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
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Open the full verse study7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
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Open the full verse study18¶ Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
From verse 63
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Open the full verse study2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
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Open the full verse study14I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
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Open the full verse study9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
From verse 64
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Open the full verse study4Give 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.
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Open the full verse study20But, 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.
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Open the full verse study14Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works:
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Open the full verse study10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
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Open the full verse study29Call 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.
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Open the full verse study6Reward 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.
From verse 65
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Open the full verse study10Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
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Open the full verse study22If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.
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Open the full verse study30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
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Open the full verse study15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
20Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
21Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
22Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
23Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people shall say, Amen.
24Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
25Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
26Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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