Psalms 79:12
ContextNET © | Pay back our neighbors in full! 1 May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 2 |
NIV © | Pay back into the laps of our neighbours seven times the reproach they have hurled at you, O Lord. |
NASB © | And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom The reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord. |
NLT © | O Lord, take sevenfold vengeance on our neighbors for the scorn they have hurled at you. |
MSG © | Give our jeering neighbors what they've got coming to them; let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat. |
BBE © | And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord. |
NRSV © | Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord! |
NKJV © | And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord. |
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NET © | Pay back our neighbors in full! 1 May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 2 |
NET © Notes |
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.” |