Mazmur 79:6-7

79:6 Pour out your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you, ¹ 

on the kingdoms that do not pray to you! ² 

79:7 For they have devoured Jacob

and destroyed his home.

Mazmur 79:12

79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! ³ 

May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! ⁴ 

[79:6]  ¹ tn Heb “which do not know you.” Here the Hebrew term “know” means “acknowledge the authority of.”

[79:6]  ² sn The kingdoms that do not pray to you. The people of these kingdoms pray to other gods, not the Lord, because they do not recognize his authority over them.

[79:12]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Heb “their reproach with which they reproached you, O Lord.”