Text -- Psalms 79:12-13 (NET)

79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 79:13 Then we, your people, the sheep of your pasture, will continually thank you. We will tell coming generations of your praiseworthy acts.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 79:12

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.”

NET Notes: Psa 79:13

¹ tn Or (hyperbolically) “will thank you forever.”

² tn Heb “to a generation and a generation we will report your praise.” Here “praise” stands by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.