Psalms 64:8

In 11 translations

BSB

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

KJV

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

WEB

Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

ASV

So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

LSV

And they cause him to stumble, || Their own tongue [is] against them, || Every looker on them flees away.

YLT

And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

DBY

By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.

DRC63:9

And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

GNV

They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.

JPS64:9

So they make their own tongue a stumbling unto themselves; all that see them shake the head.

LXXE63:9

and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled;

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Original-language editions

WLC64:9

וַיַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ עָלֵ֣ימוֹ לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ כָּל־רֹ֥אֵה בָֽם׃KJV:Ps.64.8

LXX-Br63:9

καὶ ἐξουθένησαν αὐτὸν αἱ γλῶσσαι αὐτῶν· ἐταράχθησαν πάντες οἱ θεωροῦντες αὐτοὺς,

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
• Proverbs 12:13An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
• Psalms 140:9May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
• Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
• Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
• Nahum 3:7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
• Psalms 22:7All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:
• Psalms 31:11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.
• Jeremiah 48:27Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.
• Jeremiah 18:16They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.
• Matthew 21:41“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
• Psalms 52:6The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the evildoer, saying,
• Numbers 16:34At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled, saying, “The earth may swallow us too!”
• Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
• Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
• Psalms 9:3When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.

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