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Lamentations 3:65

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3:65Give them a distraught heart;132

may your curse be on them!

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Footnotes

  1. 132 The noun מְגִנַּה (méginnah) is a . Its meaning is debated; earlier lexicographers suggested that it meant “covering” ( 171 ), but more recent lexicons suggest “shamelessness” or “insanity” ( ). The translation is based on the term being parallel to “curse” and needing to relate to “heart.” Cf. “anguish of heart.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You will give them dullness of heart;

your curse will be on them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Put a veil over their hearts,

and may your curse be on them!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You will give them a heart filled with anguish.

May your curse be on them!

NLTNew Living Translation

Give them hard and stubborn hearts,

and then let your curse fall on them!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Give them a stubborn heart;

curse them!

KJV 1900King James Version

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.