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Psalm 79:12-13
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12 Pay back our neighbors in full.[a]
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord.[b]
13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture,
will continually thank you.[c]
We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:12 tn Heb “Return to our neighbors sevenfold into their lap.” The number seven is used rhetorically to express the thorough nature of the action. For other rhetorical/figurative uses of the Hebrew phrase שִׁבְעָתַיִם (shivʿatayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.
  2. Psalm 79:12 tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”
  3. Psalm 79:13 tn Or (hyperbolically) “will thank you forever.”
  4. Psalm 79:13 tn Heb “to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.” Here “praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.
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