Psalm 140:9

A Conservative Version

As for the head of those who encompass me around, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Cross References

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own scalp.

Proverbs 18:7

A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

Proverbs 12:13

A wicked man is snared by the transgression of [his] lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of a righteous man is a fountain of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are upon the head of a righteous man, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Psalm 94:23

And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. LORD our God will cut them off.

Psalm 64:8

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Matthew 27:25

And having answered, all the people said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go thou in merrily with the king to the banquet. And t

Deuteronomy 32:27

were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge amiss, lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, and LORD has not done all this.