Psalm 79:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And return into the bosom of our neighbors sevenfold the taunts with which they have taunted and scoffed at You, O Lord!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And render unto our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Common English Bible

¹² Pay back our neighbors seven times over, right where it hurts, for the insults they used on you, Lord.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² It extended its new branches even to the sea, and its new seedlings even to the river.

Psalm 79:12 Cross References

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Genesis 4:15

Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! Whoever kills Cain will suffer a sevenfold vengeance.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, so that no one who came upon him would kill him.

Leviticus 26:28

I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21

“If you continue hostile to me and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

Luke 6:38

give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap, for the measure you give will be the measure you get back.”

Proverbs 6:31

Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.

Psalm 44:16

at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

Psalm 74:10

How long, O God, is the foe to scoff? Is the enemy to revile your name forever?

Psalm 89:52

Blessed be the Lord forever. Amen and Amen.

Ezekiel 35:12

You shall know that I, the Lord, have heard all the abusive speech that you uttered against the mountains of Israel, saying, “They are laid desolate; they are given us to devour.”

Ezekiel 36:7

therefore thus says the Lord God: I swear that the nations that are all around you shall themselves suffer insults.