Psalms 7:16

WEB

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

KJV

¹⁶His mischief^[+] shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

BSB

¹⁶His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

FBV

¹⁶The trouble they cause rebounds to hit them on the head; their violence against others comes down on their own skulls.

Extra References

Esther 9:25

²⁵but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalms 37:12-13

¹²The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth. ¹³The Lord will laugh at him, for he sees that his day is coming.

1 Kings 2:32

³²The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

1 Samuel 28:19

¹⁹Moreover the LORD will deliver Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines; and tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The LORD will deliver the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”

Psalms 36:12

¹²There the workers of iniquity are fallen. They are thrust down, and shall not be able to rise.

1 Samuel 31:3-4

³The battle went hard against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was greatly distressed by reason of the archers. ⁴Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through and abuse me!” But his armor bearer would not, for he was terrified. Therefore Saul took his sword and fell on it.

1 Samuel 26:10

¹⁰David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him; or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down into battle and perish.

1 Samuel 24:12-13

¹²May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand will not be on you. ¹³As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.

1 Samuel 23:9

⁹David knew that Saul was devising mischief against him. He said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”

Malachi 2:3-5

³Behold, I will rebuke your offspring,^[+] and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. ⁴You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says the LORD of Armies. ⁵“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.