Psalms 79:12

79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! ¹ 

May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! ² 

[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.

[79:12]  ² tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”