Let workers of iniquity into their own nets fall, Whilst I do, by thine help, escape the danger of them all.
Psalm 7:16 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter) Upon his own head his mischief shall be returned home; His vi'lent dealing also down on his own pate shall come. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp. American Standard Version (1901) His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate. Common English Bible The trouble they cause will come back on their own heads; the violence they commit will come down on their own skulls. Catholic Public Domain Version He has opened a pit and enlarged it. And he has fallen into the hole that he made. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He hath opened a pit and dug it; and he is fallen into the hole he made. |
Let workers of iniquity into their own nets fall, Whilst I do, by thine help, escape the danger of them all.
Let ruin seize him unawares; his net he hid withal Himself let catch; and in the same destruction let him fall.
There fallen are they, and ruined, that work iniquities: Cast down they are, and never shall be able to arise.
He mischief, lying on his bed, most cunningly doth plot: He sets himself in ways not good, ill he abhorreth not.
The Lord is by the judgment known which he himself hath wrought: The sinners' hands do make the snares wherewith themselves are caught.