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10 Foreign nations are saying about us,
    ‘Their God cannot help them!’
That is not right!
People of those nations have murdered your servants,
    so punish them for us to see.
11 Listen to the prisoners who are in pain!
    They are calling out for help.
Use your great power to make them free,
    before their enemies kill them.
12 Lord, those countries near to us
    have insulted you.
Punish them as they deserve,
    seven times over!
Give them as much trouble as they have given to you.

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10 Why should the nations say,
    “Where is their God?”(A)

Before our eyes, make known among the nations
    that you avenge(B) the outpoured blood(C) of your servants.
11 May the groans of the prisoners come before you;
    with your strong arm preserve those condemned to die.
12 Pay back into the laps(D) of our neighbors seven times(E)
    the contempt they have hurled at you, Lord.

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