12 Pay back into the laps of our neighbors sevenfold the reproach they hurled at You, O Lord.
Psalms 79:12
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Psalms 89:49–51
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Lamentations 3:63–65
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Nehemiah 4:3–5
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Psalms 28:3–5
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Psalms 41:9–11
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Psalms 44:12–14
12 You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale. 13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. 14 You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
Psalms 79:3–5
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