Psalms 79:12

Pay back our neighbors in full! ¹  May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! ² 

Ge 4:15; Le 26:21,28; Ps 44:16; Ps 74:18-22; Isa 65:5-7; Jer 32:18; Lu 6:38

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”