“Those who surround me lift up their head; The trouble of their lips cover them;
As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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.
Let the heads of the people surrounding me be covered with the trouble their own lips caused!
Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.
So his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a stake be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵ
And they impaled Haman on the stake that he had prepared for Mordeḵ
And they cause one to stumble, Their own tongue is against them; All who see them flee away.
His trouble turns back upon his own head, And his wrongdoing comes down on the top of his head.
And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; יהוה our Elohim does cut them off.
The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong.
Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong.
In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare, But the righteous gets out of distress.
A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life.
And all the people answering, said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”
‘If I did not fear the enemy’s taunt, Lest their adversaries misunderstand, Lest they say, “Our hand is high, And יהוה has not done all this.” ’