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John Gill's Exposition on Lamentations 3:64

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Render unto them a recompence, O Lord, according to the work of their hands.] The Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions render this, and the following verses, not as petitions, but as prophecies of what should be; but they seem rather to be expressed by way of request; and here, that God would deal with them according to the law of retaliation, and requite them according to what they had done; that he would do to them as they had done to the Lord’s people, and others; and this is ordered to be done particularly to the Chaldeans, or Babylonians, (<245015>Jeremiah 50:15,29).
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