Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn.
New American Standard Bible
All who see them will
King James Version
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Holman Bible
their own tongues work against them.
All who see them will shake their heads.
International Standard Version
They tripped over their own tongues, and everyone who was watching ran away.
A Conservative Version
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them. All who see them shall wag the head.
American Standard Version
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
Amplified
So they will be caused to stumble;
Their own tongue is against them;
All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].
Bible in Basic English
The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
Darby Translation
By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.
Julia Smith Translation
And they will cause their tongue to falter upon themselves: all looking upon them shall be moved.
King James 2000
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they [who] would cause him to stumble, their [own] tongue [will be] against them. All who gaze on them will shake.
Modern King James verseion
So they shall be confounded; their tongue falls on themselves; everyone seeing them shall flee.
NET Bible
Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
New Heart English Bible
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
The Emphasized Bible
When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.
Webster
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
World English Bible
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Youngs Literal Translation
And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 64:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Protection From Evildoers
7 But God shall suddenly shoot with a swift arrow, that they shall be wounded. 8 Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn. 9 And all men that see it shall say, "This hath God done!" For they shall perceive that it is his work.
Cross References
Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his own destruction, and his lips are the snare for his own soul.
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked falleth into the snare through the malice of his own mouth; but the just shall escape out of peril.
Psalm 22:7
All they that see me, laugh me to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads.
Numbers 16:34
And all Israel that were about them, fled at the cry of them. For they said, "The earth might haply swallow us also."
1 Samuel 31:3-7
And the battle went sore against Saul, insomuch that shooters with bows had found him, and he was sore wounded of the shooters.
Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea thine own lips shape the answer.
Psalm 9:3
While mine enemies are driven back, they fall and perish at thy presence.
Psalm 31:11
I am become a very reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours. And they of mine own acquaintance are afraid of me; they that see me in the street, convey themselves from me.
Psalm 52:6
The righteous also shall see this, and fear, and shall laugh him to scorn.
Psalm 59:12
For the sin of their mouth, for the words of their lips, and because of their pride, let them be taken. And why? Their preaching is of cursing and lies.
Psalm 140:9
Let the mischief of their own lips fall upon the head of them that compass me about.
Jeremiah 18:16
Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads.
Jeremiah 48:27
O Israel, shalt thou not laugh him to scorn, when he is taken among thieves? Yea, because of thy words that thou hast spoken against him, thou shalt be driven away.
Nahum 3:7
Yea, all they that look upon thee shall start back, and say, "Nineveh is destroyed!" Who will have pity upon thee? Where shall I seek one to comfort thee?
Matthew 21:41
They said unto him, He will cruelly destroy those evil persons; and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall deliver him the fruit at times convenient.
Luke 19:22
And he said unto him, 'Of thine own mouth judge I thee, thou evil servant. Knowest thou that I am a strait man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow?
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven say, "Come away from her, my people, that ye be not partakers in her sins, that ye receive not of her plagues.
Revelation 18:10
and shall stand afar off, for fear of her punishment, saying, 'Alas, Alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city: For at one hour is her judgment come.'