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10 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
    Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted[a] out
        before our eyes and among the nations.
11 Let the cries of the prisoners reach you.
    With the strength of your power,
        release those condemned to death.[b]
12 Pay back our neighbors seven times[c]
    the reproach with which they reproached you, Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 79:10 Lit. spilled
  2. Psalm 79:11 Lit. the sons of death
  3. Psalm 79:12 Or seven-fold