Whoever digs a pit will fall in it, and whoever rolls a stone— it will come back upon him.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s rage subsided.
But when it came to the king’s attention, he issued a written edict that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (
In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.
Be exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let Your glory be over all the earth!
Then I will tell all your praises in the gates of the daughter of Zion, rejoicing in Your salvation.
One who leads the upright astray along an evil path will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will inherit good.
The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it, and whoever breaks through a fence may be bitten by a snake.
Oy , the wicked! It will be bad for him, for the dealing of his hands will be done to him.
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah is fallen. For their tongue and their actions are against Adonai, defying the eyes of His glory.