Psalm 7:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ He digs a pit, scrapes it out, and then falls into the hole he has made.

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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.

Psalm 7:16 Cross References

1 Kings 2:32

Thus Adonai will return his blood on his own head, because he struck down two men more righteous and better than he—Abner son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah—and killed them with the sword, without my father David’s knowledge.

1 Kings 21:19

You shall speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: Have you murdered and then taken possession?’ You shall also speak to him saying, ‘Thus says Adonai: In the same place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood too.’”

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s rage subsided.

Esther 9:25

But when it came to the king’s attention, he issued a written edict that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (

Job 4:8

As I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow harm, reap them.

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by safely.

Psalm 35:8

Let ruin come upon him by surprise. Let the net he hid entangle himself —into that same pit let him fall.

Psalm 36:12

May the foot of pride never tread on me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalm 36:4

His mouth’s words are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and do good.

Psalm 57:7

They spread a net for my steps, my soul is bowed down. They have dug a pit before me— they fell into it themselves. Selah

Psalm 9:16

The nations sank into the pit they made. The net they hid caught their own foot.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the fate of all gaining by violence. It takes the life of its possessor.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall in it, and whoever rolls a stone— it will come back upon him.

Ecclesiastes 10:8

Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.

1 Samuel 23:9

Now David knew that Saul was plotting evil against him, so he said to Abiathar the kohen, “Bring the ephod.”

1 Samuel 26:10

David added, “As Adonai lives, either Adonai will strike him down, or his day will come to die, or he will go down to battle and be swept away.

1 Samuel 28:19

Moreover, Adonai will also give the Israelites who are with you into the hand of the Philistines. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me! Yes, Adonai will give the army of Israel into the hand of the Philistines.”