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 Let the heads of those who surround me be covered with their own threats. 10 “May burning coals fall upon them;
May they be cast into the fire,
Into deep pits from which they cannot rise.
11 Do not let slanderers prosper on earth. Let evil hunt down violent people with one blow after another.

Cross References

Psalm 11:6

He rains down fire and burning sulfur upon wicked people. He makes them drink from a cup filled with scorching wind.

Psalm 21:9

When you appear, you will make them burn like a blazing furnace. Jehovah will swallow them up in his anger. Fire will devour them.

Genesis 19:24

Jehovah made burning sulfur and fire rain out of the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.

Exodus 9:23-24

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

Psalm 18:13-14

Jehovah thundered in the heavens. The Most High made his voice heard with hailstones and lightning.

Psalm 55:23

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

Psalm 120:4

He will give you a warrior's sharpened arrows and red-hot coals.

Proverbs 28:10

Whoever leads decent people into evil will fall into his own pit. Innocent people will inherit good things.

Proverbs 28:17

A violent and bloodthirsty man will run to the pit; let no man help him.

Daniel 3:20-25

He commanded the mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to throw them into the blazing furnace.

Matthew 13:42

The angels will cast them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:50

The wicked will be cast into the furnace of fire where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Revelation 16:8-9

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. Authority was given to him to scorch men with fire.

Revelation 20:15

Whoever was not found written in the book of life was hurled (thrust) (thrown) into the lake of fire.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful and unbelieving, abominable and murderers, fornicators and those practicing spiritism, idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur: which is the second death.

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