Psalm 7:16 - The Scriptures 2009

¹⁶ His trouble turns back upon his own head, And his wrongdoing comes down on the top of his head.

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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

1 Kings 2:32

“Thus יהוה shall return his blood on his head, because he had fallen on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, while my father Dawiḏ did not know it: Aḇnĕr son of Nĕr, commander of the army of Yisra’ĕl, and Amasa son of Yether, commander of the army of Yehuḏah.

1 Kings 21:19

“And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naḇoth, the dogs are going to lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”

Esther 7:10

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

Esther 9:25

But when she came before the sovereign, he commanded by letter that his evil plot which Haman had plotted against the Yehuḏim should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the wooden structure.

Job 4:8

According to what I have seen, those who plough wickedness and sow suffering reap the same.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wrong fall into their own nets, While I pass by.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come upon him unawares, And let his net that he hid catch himself; Let him fall in it, into ruin.

Psalm 36:12

There the workers of wickedness have fallen; They have been overthrown And have been unable to rise.

Psalm 36:4

He plots wickedness on his bed; He sets himself in a way that is not good; He does not despise evil.

Psalm 57:7

My heart is firm, O Elohim, My heart is firm; I sing and praise.

Psalm 9:16

יהוה has made Himself known, He has done right-ruling; The wrong is snared in the work of his own hands. Meditation. Selah.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit falls into it, And whoever rolls a stone, it turns back on him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

He who digs a pit falls into it, and whoever breaks through a wall is bitten by a snake.

1 Samuel 23:9

And Dawiḏ knew that Sha’ul was plotting evil against him, and said to Eḇyathar the priest, “Bring the shoulder garment here.”

1 Samuel 26:10

Dawiḏ also said, “As יהוה lives, except יהוה does smite him, or his day come that he shall die, or he shall go out to battle and perish,

1 Samuel 28:19

“Further, יהוה also gives Yisra’ĕl with you into the hand of the Philistines. And tomorrow you and your sons are with me. יהוה also gives the army of Yisra’ĕl into the hand of the Philistines.”