Psalm 7:16 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

¹⁶ Upon his own head his mischief shall be returned home; His vi'lent dealing also down on his own pate shall come.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ 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

¹⁶ He hath opened a pit and dug it; and he is fallen into the hole he made.

Psalm 7:16 Cross References

Psalm 141:10

Let workers of iniquity into their own nets fall, Whilst I do, by thine help, escape the danger of them all.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin seize him unawares; his net he hid withal Himself let catch; and in the same destruction let him fall.

Psalm 36:12

There fallen are they, and ruined, that work iniquities: Cast down they are, and never shall be able to arise.

Psalm 36:4

He mischief, lying on his bed, most cunningly doth plot: He sets himself in ways not good, ill he abhorreth not.

Psalm 57:7

My heart is fix'd, my heart is fix'd, O God; I'll sing and praise.

Psalm 9:16

The Lord is by the judgment known which he himself hath wrought: The sinners' hands do make the snares wherewith themselves are caught.