Psalm 140:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

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He watches over all his bones; not one of them shall be broken.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who choose one shall eat its fruit.

Woe to the wicked! It will go ill with them, with the work of their hands they will be repaid.

The perverse in heart come to no good, and the double-tongued fall into trouble.

Misfortune pursues sinners, but the just shall be recompensed with good.

By the sin of their lips the wicked are ensnared, but the just escape from a tight spot.

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

The nations fall into the pit they dig; in the snare they hide, their own foot is caught.