Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not.
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.
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.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 140:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Prayer For Rescue
9 The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them. 10 They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits -- they arise not. 11 A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.
Cross References
Psalm 11:6
He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind is the portion of their cup.
Psalm 21:9
Thou makest them as a furnace of fire, At the time of Thy presence. Jehovah in His anger doth swallow them, And fire doth devour them.
Genesis 19:24
and Jehovah hath rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah, from the heavens;
Exodus 9:23-24
And Moses stretcheth out his rod towards the heavens, and Jehovah hath given voices and hail, and fire goeth towards the earth, and Jehovah raineth hail on the land of Egypt,
Psalm 18:13-14
And thunder in the heavens doth Jehovah, And the Most High giveth forth His voice, Hail and coals of fire.
Psalm 55:23
And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!
Psalm 120:4
Sharp arrows of a mighty one, with broom-coals.
Proverbs 28:10
Whoso is causing the upright to err in an evil way, Into his own pit he doth fall, And the perfect do inherit good.
Proverbs 28:17
A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.
Daniel 3:20-25
and to certain mighty men who are in his force he hath said to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, to cast into the burning fiery furnace.
Matthew 13:42
and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.
Matthew 13:50
and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'
Revelation 16:8-9
And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire,
Revelation 20:15
and if any one was not found written in the scroll of the life, he was cast to the lake of the fire.
Revelation 21:8
and to fearful, and unstedfast, and abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the liars, their part is in the lake that is burning with fire and brimstone, which is a second death.'