Psalms 140:9

WEB

⁹As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

KJV

⁹As for the head^[+] of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

BSB

⁹May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

FBV

⁹May the harm spoken against me by those who surround me fall back on them,

Extra References

Psalms 7:16

¹⁶The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.

Proverbs 18:7

⁷A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Psalms 94:23

²³He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. The LORD, our God, will cut them off.

Proverbs 12:13

¹³An evil man is trapped by sinfulness of lips, but the righteous shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 10:6

⁶Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 10:11

¹¹The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Esther 7:10

¹⁰So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Psalms 64:8

⁸Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Matthew 27:25

²⁵All the people answered, “May his blood be on us and on our children!”

¹⁴Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits^[+] high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.