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Psalm 64:8

Contemporary English Version 1995

They will be destroyed by their own words, and everyone who sees them will tremble with fear.

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Saying foolish things is like setting a trap to destroy yourself.

We trap ourselves by telling lies, but we stay out of trouble by living right.

They have me surrounded, but make them the victims of their own vicious lies.

“You worthless servant!” the king told him. “You have condemned yourself by what you have just said. You knew I am a hard man, taking what isn't mine and harvesting what I've not planted.

The chief priests and leaders answered, “He will kill them in some horrible way. Then he will rent out his vineyard to people who will give him his share of grapes at harvest time.”

Everyone who sees you will turn away and shout, “Nineveh is done for! Is anyone willing to mourn or to give her comfort?”

You made fun of my people and treated them like criminals caught in the act.

Your land will be ruined, and every passerby will look at it with horror and make insulting remarks.

My enemies insult me. Neighbors are even worse, and I disgust my friends. People meet me on the street, and they turn and run.

Everyone who sees me makes fun and sneers. They shake their heads,

I am not here as your judge; your own words are witnesses against you.

Her sufferings will frighten them, and they will stand at a distance and say, “Pity that great and powerful city! Pity Babylon! In a single hour her judgment has come.”

Then I heard another voice from heaven shout, “My people, you must escape from Babylon. Don't take part in her sins and share her punishment.

My enemies are liars! So let them be trapped by their boastful lies.

When good people see this fearsome sight, they will laugh and say,

When my enemies face you, they run away and stumble and are destroyed.

The rest of the Israelites heard their screams, so they ran off, shouting, “We don't want that to happen to us!”

Use your lightning as arrows to scatter my enemies and make them run away.




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