Give them according to their deeds - Deal righteously with them. Recompense them as they deserve.

And according to the wickedne…

Give them according to their deeds. —The justice of the lex talionis was deeply impressed on the mind of Israel,…

And a just mind feels that it should be so. God is a judge, and he will punish sin, and gracious people do not wish that it should be otherwise. Ev…

Give them according to their works. Having thus requested God to consider his innocence, the Psalmist thunders forth a curse against his e…

Give them according to their deeds
According to the demerit of them, which is death, even death eternal;