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Psalm 64:8

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.




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