Parallel Verses
NET Bible
Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
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.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, their own tongues shall make them fall, insomuch that whoso seeth them, shall laugh them to scorn.
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 will shoot at them; suddenly they will be wounded by an arrow. 8 Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder, 9 and all people will fear. They will proclaim what God has done, and reflect on his deeds.
Cross References
Proverbs 18:7
The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.
Proverbs 12:13
The evil person is ensnared by the transgression of his speech, but the righteous person escapes out of trouble.
Psalm 22:7
All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.
Numbers 16:34
All the Israelites who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, "What if the earth swallows us too?"
1 Samuel 31:3-7
Saul himself was in the thick of the battle; the archers spotted him and wounded him severely.
Job 15:6
Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
Psalm 9:3
When my enemies turn back, they trip and are defeated before you.
Psalm 31:11
Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering -- those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.
Psalm 52:6
When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe, and will mock the evildoer, saying:
Psalm 59:12
They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
Psalm 140:9
As for the heads of those who surround me -- may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!
Jeremiah 18:16
So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.
Jeremiah 48:27
For did not you people of Moab laugh at the people of Israel? Did you think that they were nothing but thieves, that you shook your head in contempt every time you talked about them?
Nahum 3:7
Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, 'Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?' There will be no one to comfort you!"
Matthew 21:41
They said to him, "He will utterly destroy those evil men! Then he will lease the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his portion at the harvest."
Luke 19:22
The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?
Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in her sins and so you will not receive her plagues,
Revelation 18:10
They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, "Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom has come!"