25:8 The Lord is both kind and fair; 1
that is why he teaches sinners the right way to live. 2
79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! 3
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 4
1 tn Heb “good and just.”
2 tn Heb “teaches sinners in the way.”
3 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 (shiv’atayim, “seven times”) see Gen 4:15, 24; Ps 12:6; Prov 6:31; Isa 30:26.
4 tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”