Psalm 140:9

Good News Translation

Don't let my enemies be victorious; make their threats against me fall back on them.

Cross References

Esther 5:14

So his wife and all his friends suggested, “Why don't you have a gallows built, seventy-five feet tall? Tomorrow morning you can ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it, and then you can go to the banquet happy.” Haman thought this was a good idea, so he had the gallows built.

Esther 7:10

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai. Then the king's anger cooled down.

Psalm 64:8

He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.

Psalm 7:16

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

Psalm 94:23

He will punish them for their wickedness and destroy them for their sins; the Lord our God will destroy them.

Proverbs 10:11

A good person's words are a fountain of life, but a wicked person's words hide a violent nature.

Proverbs 10:6

Good people will receive blessings. The words of the wicked hide a violent nature.

Proverbs 12:13

The wicked are trapped by their own words, but honest people get themselves out of trouble.

Proverbs 18:7

When a fool speaks, he is ruining himself; he gets caught in the trap of his own words.

Matthew 27:25

The whole crowd answered, “Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!”

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.’