Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.

King James Version

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Holman Bible

Let hot coals fall on them.
Let them be thrown into the fire,
into the abyss, never again to rise.

International Standard Version

May burning coals fall on them; may they be cast into fire, and into miry pits, never to rise again.

A Conservative Version

Let burning coals fall upon them. Let them be cast into the fire, into deep pits, from where they shall not rise.

American Standard Version

Let burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.

Amplified


“Let burning coals fall upon them;
Let them be thrown into the fire,
Into deep [water] pits from which they cannot rise.

Bible in Basic English

Let burning flames come down on them: let them be put into the fire, and into deep waters, so that they may not get up again.

Darby Translation

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again.

Julia Smith Translation

Burning coals shall be shaken upon them; he shall cast them into fire, into whirlpools; they shall not rise up.

King James 2000

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits [from which] they cannot rise.

Modern King James verseion

Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, so that they do not rise up again.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let hot burning coals fall upon them; let them be cast into the fire, and into the pit, that they never rise up again.

NET Bible

May he rain down fiery coals upon them! May he throw them into the fire! From bottomless pits they will not escape.

New Heart English Bible

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

The Emphasized Bible

May there be dropped on them live coals, - Into the fire, may they be let fall, into watery pits from which they shall not rise.

Webster

Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not again.

World English Bible

Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.

Youngs Literal Translation

They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.

References

Fausets

Smith

Context Readings

Prayer For Rescue

9 “As for the head of those who surround me,
May the mischief of their lips cover them.
10 “May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.
11 “May a slanderer not be established in the earth;
May evil hunt the violent man speedily.”

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

Upon the wicked He will rain snares;
Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.

Psalm 21:9

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

Genesis 19:24

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

Exodus 9:23-24

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Psalm 18:13-14

The Lord also thundered in the heavens,
And the Most High uttered His voice,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

Psalm 55:23

But You, O God, will bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.

Psalm 120:4

Sharp arrows of the warrior,
With the burning coals of the broom tree.

Proverbs 28:10

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.

Proverbs 28:17

A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood
Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.

Daniel 3:20-25

He commanded certain valiant warriors who were in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego in order to cast them into the furnace of blazing fire.

Matthew 13:42

and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:50

and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Revelation 16:8-9

The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

Revelation 20:15

And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

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