3. Will judge thee. Verses 3, 4 are repeated almost exactly in 8, 9. These passages represent a kind of refrain in the song of lamentation, which lends greater force to the denunciations.
According to thy ways. Compare Rev. 22:12. Some psychologists have claimed that man is not responsible for his actions. They assert that he is the victim of glandular disorders, or an unstable nervous system, or a bad environment. The religion of the Bible affirms and demonstrates that the power of the gospel is greater than every hereditary and cultivated tendency to evil.