Psalms 79:4,12 - Compare All Versions

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We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

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

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

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

We are mocked by our neighbors, an object of scorn and derision to those around us.

O Lord, pay back our neighbors seven times for the scorn they have hurled at you.

We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

Pay back sevenfold to our neighbors  the reproach they have hurled at you, Lord.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and derision to those who are around us.

And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.

God! Barbarians have broken into your home, violated your holy temple, left Jerusalem a pile of rubble! They’ve served up the corpses of your servants as carrion food for birds of prey, Threw the bones of your holy people out to the wild animals to gnaw on. They dumped out their blood like buckets of water. All around Jerusalem, their bodies were left to rot, unburied. We’re nothing but a joke to our neighbors, graffiti scrawled on the city walls.

Give groaning prisoners a hearing; pardon those on death row from their doom—you can do it! Give our jeering neighbors what they’ve got coming to them; let their God-taunts boomerang and knock them flat. Then we, your people, the ones you love and care for, will thank you over and over and over. We’ll tell everyone we meet how wonderful you are, how praiseworthy you are!

We have become a disgrace before our neighbors, An object of derision and ridicule to those around us.

And return to our neighbors seven times as much into their lap Their taunts with which they have taunted You, Lord.

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation], A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.

And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

Pay back our neighbors in full! May they be insulted the same way they insulted you, O Lord!