Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits [from which] they cannot 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.
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.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
9 [With respect to the] head of [those who] surround me, may the harm of their lips cover them. 10 Let burning coals fall on them; let them be dropped into the fire, into bottomless pits [from which] they cannot rise. 11 Do not let a {slanderer} be established in the land; as for [the] man of violence, let evil hunt him quickly.
Cross References
Psalm 11:6
He will rain coals on [the] wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind [will be] the portion of their cup.
Psalm 21:9
You will make them like your fiery furnace at the time of your appearance. Yahweh will swallow them in his wrath and fire will consume them.
Genesis 19:24
Yahweh rained down from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Yahweh.
Exodus 9:23-24
And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens, and Yahweh gave thunder and hail, and fire went [to the] earth, and Yahweh caused hail to rain on the land of Egypt.
Psalm 18:13-14
And Yahweh thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice [with] hail and coals of fire.
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, you will bring them down to [the] pit of corruption. [The] men of bloodshed and deceit will not live half their days, but I will trust you.
Psalm 120:4
[The] sharpened arrows of a warrior, with burning charcoals from broom trees.
Proverbs 28:10
He who misleads the upright onto the way of evil, into his pits he will fall. But as for the blameless, they will inherit good.
Proverbs 28:17
A person who is burdened with [the] blood of {another}, until death he will flee; do not take hold of him.
Daniel 3:20-25
And he commanded {the strongest men of the guards} who [were] in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and to throw [them] into the furnace of blazing fire.
Matthew 13:42
and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
Matthew 13:50
and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth!
Revelation 16:8-9
And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to it to burn up people with fire.
Revelation 20:15
And if anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8
But [as] for the cowards and unbelievers and detestable persons and murderers and sexually immoral people and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their share [is] in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.