You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
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You will give them hardness of heart, your curse to them.
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Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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Thou wilt give them hardness of heart, Thy curse unto them.
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Passages linked to Lamentations 3:65 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Isaiah 6:10 Make the heart of this people fat. Make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their heart, and turn again, and be healed.”
- Deuteronomy 2:30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
- 1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man doesn’t love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be cursed. Come, Lord!
- Deuteronomy 27:15-26 ‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or his mother.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who removes his neighbor’s landmark.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he dishonors his father’s bed.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who lies with any kind of animal.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who lies with his mother-in-law.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who secretly kills his neighbor.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’ ”
- Psalms 109:17-18 Yes, he loved cursing, and it came to him. He didn’t delight in blessing, and it was far from him. He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain He expresses what the vengeance was to be, even…
He expresses what the vengeance was to be, even that God would give them up to a reprobate mind; for by מגנת-לב, meganet-leb, he no doubt meant the blindness of the heart, and at the same time included stupidity, as though he had said, “O Lord, so oppress them with evils, that they may become stupified.” For it is an extremity of evil, when we are so overpowered as not to be as it were ourselves, and when our evils do not drive us to prayer.
We now then perceive what the Prophet meant by asking God to give to his enemies the impediment of heart, even that he might take away a sound mind, and smite them with blindness and madness, as it is said elsewhere. — I run on quickly, that I may finish, lest the hour should prevent us. The last verse of this triple alphabet follows, —
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, an obstinate heart.
Or, an obstinate heart.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lam 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse…
Lam 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
Ver. 65. Give them sorrow of heart.] In place of their mad mirth and sinful music; turn their psalm - as the Vulgate rendereth the word music in the foregoing verse - into a black santis, as they call it, ferale carmen, a doleful ditty. Dabis eis scutum cordis, saith the Vulgate. And, indeed, the word rendered sorrow signifieth a shield or cover. It noteth, saith one, the cardiaca passio, {a} whereby the heart is so oppressed, and there is such a stopping, that it is as it were covered sicut scute, as with a shield; there is a lid, as it were, put over the heart to keep off the most refreshing cordials, and so the heart is suffocated with sorrow. {b} It is as if he should say, Put them into such a condition that no creature may yield them the least refreshment. Spira was in this condition.
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Thy curse upon them.] All the curses written and unwritten in thy book. This is not more a prayer than a prophecy. How effectual Christ’s curse is, may be seen in the withered fig tree in the Gospel, presently dried up by the roots.
{a} A Lapide.
{b} Mr Burrough’s Hos. Operculum cordis, vel apostema cordis.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The word translated
The word translated
sorrow of heart is found no where else in holy writ, which makes a certain particular explication of it to be difficult, and hath given interpreters a strange liberty in translating it shield, sorrow, and grief, obstinacy or hardness of heart, perplexity, abjection or breaking of heart; the best guides we have to direct us in the sense of it are,
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1. The other things joined with it; persecution, destruction, a recompence according to their works, so that some afflictive evil of a heavy nature is certainly signified by it.
2. The analogy of faith, which restraineth us from wishing or praying for spiritual or eternal evils against our worst enemies; it therefore probably signifies such perplexity and breakings of mind as commonly attend a state of great affliction.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 65. Give them sorrow of heart] They shall…
Verse 65. Give them sorrow of heart] They shall have a callous heart, covered with obstinacy, and thy execration. The former is their state, the latter their fate. This is the consequence of their hardening their hearts from thy fear. Blayney translates, "Thou wilt give with a hearty concordance thy curse unto them." That is, Thou wilt give it to them freely, and without reserve; intimating that God felt no longer any bowels of compassion for them. Formerly he inflicted punishments with reluctance, while there was any hope of amendment: but, in the instance before us, the case was so hopeless, that God acts according to the simple principle of vindictive justice. The prophet therefore considers them on the utmost verge of final reprobation: another plunge, and they are lost for ever.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Buckler, to cover all the body. They shall be…
Buckler, to cover all the body. They shall be surrounded with misery, (Psalm cviii. 29.) while God will protect his servants, Psalm v. 13. (Calmet) --- Let sorrow pierce their heart, as thy enemies are treated. (Worthington)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain sorrow--rather, blindness or hardness; literally, "a veil" covering their…
sorrow--rather, blindness or hardness; literally, "a veil" covering their heart, so that they may rush on to their own ruin (Isa 6:10; Co2 3:14-15).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 65. hardness] or, as mg. blindness, Heb. covering. Cp.…
65. hardness] or, as mg. blindness, Heb. covering. Cp. 2Co_3:15.
thy curse unto them] dependent on “wilt give,” or meaning, thy curse shall be unto them. Either of these explanations is more in accordance with the context than to make the clause an imprecation, May thy curse be upon them!
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (65) Sorrow of heart—Literally, covering, with a sense like…
(65) Sorrow of heart—Literally, covering, with a sense like that of the “veil upon the heart” of 2Co_3:15, and so signifying the blindness of obstinacy. The imperatives in both Lam_3:65-66 are better rendered as futures—Thou shalt give; Thou shalt persecute.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Sorrow of heart; rather, a covering of the heart;…
Sorrow of heart; rather, a covering of the heart; spiritual blindness, like the "veil upon the heart" in 2Co_3:15. Thy curse unto them. This should rather form a separate interjectional clause, "Thy curse upon them!"
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