Psalms 140:9
"As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them."
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- Psalms 7:16
"His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 18:7
"A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 94:23
"And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 12:13
"The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 10:6
"Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 64:8
"So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away."
Read in chapter → - Esther 7:10
"So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 10:11
"The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 27:25
"Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children."
Read in chapter → - Esther 5:14
"Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made."
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