Mazmur 79:12

79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! ¹ 

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

Mazmur 86:9

86:9 All the nations, whom you created,

will come and worship you, ³  O Lord.

They will honor your name.

Mazmur 86:15

86:15 But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and merciful God.

You are patient ⁴  and demonstrate great loyal love and faithfulness. ⁵ 

[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.”

[86:9]  ³ tn Or “bow down before you.”

[86:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “slow to anger.”

[86:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and great of loyal love and faithfulness.”

[86:15]  sn The psalmist’s confession of faith in this verse echoes Exod 34:6.