Psalm 140:9

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Summary

Psalm 140:9

As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Let the mischief

Bible References

Let the mischief

His mischief will return upon his own head,
And his violence will descend upon his own pate.

So they will make him stumble;

Their own tongue is against them;

All who see them will shake the head.

He has brought back their wickedness upon them
And will

destroy them in their evil;

The Lord our God will destroy them.

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous,

But the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips,

But the righteous will escape from trouble.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.

And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!”