Psalm 140:9 - The Scriptures 2009

⁹ “Those who surround me lift up their head; The trouble of their lips covers 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Keep me from the snare, which they have laid for me, and from the stumblingblocks of them that work iniquity.

Psalm 140:9 Cross References

Esther 5:14

So his wife Zeresh and all his loved ones said to him, “Let a wooden structure be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵai be hanged on it. And go with the sovereign to the feast, rejoicing.” And the word pleased Haman, and he had the wooden structure made.

Esther 7:10

And they hanged Haman on the wooden structure that he had prepared for Mordeḵai, and the sovereign’s wrath abated.

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.” ’