Whoever digs a pit will fall into it; if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.
But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.
They spread a net for my feet— I was bowed down in distress. They dug a pit in my path— but they have fallen into it themselves.
The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
Whoever leads the upright along an evil path will fall into their own trap, but the blameless will receive a good inheritance.
The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them! They will be paid back for what their hands have done.
Jerusalem staggers, Judah is falling; their words and deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.