Psalm 79:12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Pay back into the laps of our neighbors seven times the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

English Standard Version
Return sevenfold into the lap of our neighbors the taunts with which they have taunted you, O Lord!

New American Standard Bible
And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom The reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

King James Bible
And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors the reproach they have hurled at You, Lord.

International Standard Version
Pay back our neighbors seven times the reproach with which they reproached you, LORD.

American Standard Version
And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And render to our neighbours sevenfold in their bosom: the reproach wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Young's Literal Translation
And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

Cross References

Luke 6:38
Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete with it shall be measured to you again.

Genesis 4:15
And the LORD said to him, Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

Leviticus 26:21
And if you walk contrary to me, and will not listen to me; I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
Then I will walk contrary to you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

Nehemiah 4:4
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach on their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Psalm 12:6
The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Psalm 35:13
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into my own bosom.

Psalm 74:10
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme your name for ever?

Psalm 74:18
Remember this, that the enemy has reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed your name.

Psalm 119:164
Seven times a day do I praise you because of your righteous judgments.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

79:6-13 Those who persist in ignorance of God, and neglect of prayer, are the ungodly. How unrighteous soever men were, the Lord was righteous in permitting them to do what they did. Deliverances from trouble are mercies indeed, when grounded upon the pardon of sin; we should therefore be more earnest in prayer for the removal of our sins than for the removal of afflictions. They had no hopes but from God's mercies, his tender mercies. They plead no merit, they pretend to none, but, Help us for the glory of thy name; pardon us for thy name's sake. The Christian forgets not that he is often bound in the chain of his sins. The world to him is a prison; sentence of death is passed upon him, and he knows not how soon it may be executed. How fervently should he at all times pray, O let the sighing of a prisoner come before thee, according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die! How glorious will the day be, when, triumphant over sin and sorrow, the church beholds the adversary disarmed for ever! while that church shall, from age to age, sing the praises of her great Shepherd and Bishop, her King and her God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. into their bosom—The lap or folds of the dress is used by Eastern people for receiving articles. The figure denotes retaliation (compare Isa 65:6, 7). They reproached God as well as His people.