(A)Hear, O our God, for we are despised; (B)turn their reproach on their own heads, and give them as plunder to a land of captivity!

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Hear us, our God, for we are despised.(A) Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity.

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(A)Do not cover their iniquity, and do not let their sin be blotted out from before You; for they have provoked You to anger before the builders.

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Do not cover up their guilt(A) or blot out their sins from your sight,(B) for they have thrown insults in the face of[a] the builders.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 4:5 Or have aroused your anger before

15 Let them be continually before the Lord,
That He may (A)cut off the memory of them from the earth;

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15 May their sins always remain before(A) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name(B) from the earth.

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Remember, O Lord, against (A)the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, [a]“Raze it, raze it,
To its very foundation!”

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:7 Lit. Make bare

Remember, Lord, what the Edomites(A) did
    on the day Jerusalem fell.(B)
“Tear it down,” they cried,
    “tear it down to its foundations!”(C)

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O daughter of Babylon, (A)who are to be destroyed,
Happy the one (B)who repays you as you have served us!

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Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,(A)
    happy is the one who repays you
    according to what you have done to us.

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16 ‘Therefore all those who devour you (A)shall be devoured;
And all your adversaries, every one of them, shall go into (B)captivity;
Those who plunder you shall become (C)plunder,
And all who prey upon you I will make a (D)prey.

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16 “‘But all who devour(A) you will be devoured;
    all your enemies will go into exile.(B)
Those who plunder(C) you will be plundered;
    all who make spoil of you I will despoil.

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