79:12 Pay back our neighbors in full! 1
May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord! 2
65:6 Look, I have decreed: 3
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 4
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 5 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 6 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 7
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.”
3 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
4 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
5 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
6 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
7 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.