Psalm 140:9

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

Cross References

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits [seventy-five feet] high, and in the morning speak to the king, that Mordecai may be hanged on it; then you go in merrily with the king to the dinner. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the gallows to be made.

Esther 7:10

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

Psalm 64:8

And they will be made to stumble, their own tongues turning against them; all who gaze upon them will shake their heads and flee away.

Psalm 7:16

His mischief shall fall back in return upon his own head, and his violence come down [with the loose dirt] upon his own scalp.

Psalm 94:23

And He will turn back upon them their own iniquity and will wipe them out by means of their own wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the [uncompromisingly] righteous man is a well of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 10:6

Blessings are upon the head of the [uncompromisingly] righteous (the upright, in right standing with God) but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked is [dangerously] snared by the transgression of his lips, but the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 18:7

A [self-confident] fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to himself.

Matthew 27:25

And all the people answered, Let His blood be on us and on our children! [Josh. 2:19.]

Deuteronomy 32:27

Had I not feared the provocation of the foe, lest their enemies misconstrue it and lest they should say, Our own hand has prevailed; all this was not the work of the Lord.