Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
May they be
Into
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 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.
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.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
9 As for the head of them who surround me, Let the mischief of their lips cover them: 10 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. 11 As for the slanderer, let him not be established in the earth, - As for the man of wrongful violence, let misfortune hunt him with thrust upon thrust.
Cross References
Psalm 11:6
He will rain upon the lawless live-coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.
Psalm 21:9
Thou wilt make them like a furnace of fire, at the time of thy presence, - Yahweh, in his anger, will swallow them up, and there shall consume them a fire:
Genesis 19:24
And, Yahweh, rained, upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire, - from Yahweh, out of the heavens:
Exodus 9:23-24
So Moses stretched forth his staff over the heavens, and, Yahweh, gave forth thunderings and hail, and there came fire towards the earth, - and Yahweh rained down hail, on the land of Egypt.
Psalm 18:13-14
Then did Yahweh thunder in the heavens, and the Highest uttered his voice, - hail, and live coals of fire.
Psalm 55:23
But, thou, O God, wilt bring them down to the pit of destruction, Men of bloodshed and deceit, shall not live out half their days; But, I, will trust in thee.
Psalm 120:4
The arrows of the hero sharpened, with burning coals of broom.
Proverbs 28:10
He that misguideth the upright into a hurtful way! into his own pit, he himself, shall fall, but, men of integrity, shall inherit good.
Proverbs 28:17
A man oppressed with a person's blood, unto a pit, shall flee, let them not hold him back.
Daniel 3:20-25
and, to men, who were the mightiest men in his army, gave he word to bind fast Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, - to cast them into the burning furnace of fire.
Matthew 13:42
and will cast them into the furnace of fire: there, will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Revelation 16:8-9
And, the fourth, poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it, to scorch mankind with fire;
Revelation 20:15
And, if anyone was not found, in the book of life, written, he was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8
But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, - which is the second death.