So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
Proverbs 26:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Whoever digs a pit [for another man's feet] shall fall into it himself, and he who rolls a stone [up a height to do mischief], it will return upon him. [Ps. 7:15, 16; 9:15; 10:2; 57:6; Prov. 28:10; Eccl. 10:8.] American Standard Version (1901) Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein; And he that rolleth a stone, it shall return upon him. Common English Bible Those who dig a pit will fall in it; those who roll a stone will have it turn back on them. Catholic Public Domain Version Whoever digs a pit will fall into it. And whoever rolls a stone, it will roll back to him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version He that diggeth a pit, shall fall into it: and he that rolleth a stone, it shall return to him. |
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and that he and his sons should he hanged on the gallows.
In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
They have prepared a net for my steps; Thy soul is bowed down: They have digged a pit before me; They are fallen into the midst thereof themselves. Selah
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Whoso causeth the upright to go astray in an evil way, He shall fall himself into his own pit: But the perfect shall inherit good.
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh through a fence, a serpent shall bite him.
Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.