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Psalms 79:12 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Psalms 79:12Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 79:129 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ/הָ֘שֵׁ֤בwəhāšēb
and repayconjH7725
build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···
לִ/שְׁכֵנֵ֣י/נוּlišəkēnēynw
to neighbors ourpronH7934
neighbour · nigh
שִׁ֭בְעָתַיִםšibəʿātayim
sevenfoldnounH7659
times)
אֶלʾel
intopronH413
according to · after · against · among ···
חֵיקָ֑/םḥēyqām
bosom theirnounH2436
bottom · lap · midst · within
חֶרְפָּ֘תָ֤/םḥerəpātām
reproach theirnounH2781
reproach · shame
אֲשֶׁ֖רʾăšer
whichparticleH834
after · alike · because · every ···
חֵרְפ֣וּ/ךָḥērəpwkā
they reproached youverbH2778
blaspheme · defy · jeopard · rail ···
אֲדֹנָֽ/יʾădōnāy
O LordnounH136
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 79:12

1. Over the title of this Psalm, being so short and so simple, I think we need not tarry. But the prophecy which here we read sent before, we know to be evidently fulfilled. For when these things were being sung in the times of King David, nothing of such sort, by the hostility of the Gentiles, as yet had befallen the city Jerusalem, nor the Temple of God, which as yet was not even built. For that after the death of David his son Salomon made a temple to God, who is ignorant?…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 79 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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