Psalm 140:9 - The Scriptures 1998

⁹ “Those who surround me lift up their head; The trouble of their lips cover them;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Common English Bible

⁹ Let the heads of the people surrounding me be covered with the trouble their own lips caused!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.

Psalm 140:9 Cross References

Esther 5:14

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

Esther 7:10

And they impaled Haman on the stake that he had prepared for Mordeḵ

Psalm 64:8

And they cause one to stumble, Their own tongue is against them; All who see them flee away.

Psalm 7:16

His trouble turns back upon his own head, And his wrongdoing comes down on the top of his head.

Psalm 94:23

And brings back on them their own wickedness, And cuts them off in their own wrongdoing; יהוה  our Elohim does cut them off.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, But violence covers the mouth of the wrong.

Proverbs 12:13

In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare, But the righteous gets out of distress.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool’s mouth is his ruin, And his lips are the snare of his life.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answering, said, “His blood be on us and on our children.”

Deuteronomy 32:27

‘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.” ’