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Psalms 25:8

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25:8 The Lord is both kind and fair; 1 

that is why he teaches sinners the right way to live. 2 

Psalms 79:12

Context

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 (shivatayim, “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.”



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