11-13 Give groaning prisoners a hearing;
    pardon those on death row from their doom—you can do it!
Give our jeering neighbors what they’ve got coming to them;
    let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat.
Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for,
    will thank you over and over and over.
We’ll tell everyone we meet
    how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!

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12 Pay back into the laps(A) of our neighbors seven times(B)
    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.
13 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture,(C)
    will praise you forever;(D)
from generation to generation
    we will proclaim your praise.

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