Psalm 140:9 - New Revised Standard Version

Those who surround me lift up their heads; let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Those who are fencing me in raise their heads; may the mischief of their own lips and the very things they desire for me come upon them.

American Standard Version (1901)

As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Common English Bible

Let the heads of the people surrounding me be covered with the trouble their own lips caused!

Catholic Public Domain Version

Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

Psalm 140:9 Cross References

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits.” This advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

Psalm 64:8

Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.

Psalm 7:16

Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Psalm 94:23

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 12:13

The evil are ensnared by the transgression of their lips, but the righteous escape from trouble.

Proverbs 18:7

The mouths of fools are their ruin, and their lips a snare to themselves.

Matthew 27:25

Then the people as a whole answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

Deuteronomy 32:27

but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, “Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this.”