Psalms 140:9

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: who is head of them that compasse me about.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:16 : 16 For his labour shall come vpon his owne head: and his wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate.
  • Prov 18:7 : 7 A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lippes are the snare for his owne soule.
  • Prov 12:13 : 13 The wicked falleth into the snare thorowe the malice of his owne mouth: but the iust shall escape out of all perill.
  • Matt 27:25 : 25 Then aunswered all the people, and sayde: His blood be on vs, and on our chyldren.
  • Esth 5:14 : 14 Then saide Zares his wyfe and all his friendes vnto him: Let them make a galous of fiftie cubites hie, and to morowe speake thou vnto the king that Mardocheus may be hanged thereon: then go thou in meryly with the king vnto the banket. And Haman was well content withall, and caused the galous to be made.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the galous that he had made for Mardocheus: Then was the kinges wrath pacified.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them
  • Ps 94:23 : 23 And he wyll recompence them their wickednesse, and destroy them in their owne malice: God our Lorde wyll destroy them.
  • Prov 10:6 : 6 Blessinges are vpon the head of the righteous: and the mouth of the vngodly kepeth mischiefe in secrete.
  • Prov 10:11 : 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but the mouth of the vngodly kepeth mischiefe in secrete.

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  • Ps 140:10
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    10Let hotte coales be burnyng vpon them: he wyll cast them downe into the fire into deepe pittes, that they may neuer rise vp agayne.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.

  • Ps 17:9-11
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    9They haue inclosed them selues in their owne fat: with their mouth they speake proude thynges.

    10They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde where our way lyeth: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow me downe on the grounde.

    11His doynges be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places.

  • Ps 140:8
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    8Graunt not vnto the vngodly his desires O God: bryng not to passe his mischeuous imagination lest they shoulde be made to proude. Selah.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long.

  • Ps 109:2-3
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    2For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.

    3And they haue compassed me about with hatefull wordes: and fought against me without a cause.

  • Ps 140:2-5
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    2Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.

    3They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.

    4Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete from me.

    5The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let a sodayne destruction come vpon hym vnawares: and his net that he hath layde priuily catch hym selfe, let him fall into it with his owne destruction.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22Let the noyse be hearde out of their houses when thou bryngest the murtherer sodaynly vpon them: for they haue digged a pit to take me, and layde snares for my feete.

    23Yet Lorde thou knowest all their counsayle, that they haue deuised to slay me, forgeue not their wickednesse, and let not their sinnes be put out of thy sight, but let them be iudged before thee as giltie: this do thou vnto them in the tyme of thine indignation.

  • Ps 7:16
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    16For his labour shall come vpon his owne head: and his wickednesse shall fall vpon his owne pate.

  • Ps 40:14
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    14Let them be ashamed and confounded together that seke after my soule to destroy it: let them be dryuen backwarde & be put to rebuke that wyshe me euyll.

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.

    10Destroy thou them O Lord, let them perishe through their owne counsailes: cast them out in the multitude of their vngodlinesse, for they haue rebelled against thee.

  • Ps 35:25-26
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    25Let them not say in their heart, it is as we woulde haue it: neither let them say, we haue deuoured hym.

    26Let them be put to confusion & shame all together that reioyce at my trouble: let them be clothed with rebuke and dishonour that exalt them selues against me.

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    20Let this rewarde be from God vnto myne aduersaries: and vnto those that speake euill against my soule.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22Let their table be as a snare before them: and in steade of aboundaunce of peace, let it be a meanes of destruction.

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    13Let them be confounded, let them be brought to naught that are agaynst my soule: let them be couered with shame and dishonour that seke to do me euyll.

  • Ps 64:8
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    8Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them

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    2For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.

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    2Let them be ashamed and confounded that seke after my soule: let them be turned backwarde and be put to confusion that wishe me euyll.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They deuise only howe to thrust him from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a watch O God before my mouth: and kepe the doore of my lippes.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3Take me not away with the vngodlye, and with the workers of iniquitie: whiche speake of peace to their neighbours, but mischiefe is in their heartes.

  • Ps 35:4
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    4Let them be confounded and put to shame that seeke after my soule: let them be turned backe and brought to cofusion, that imagine mischiefe for me.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.

  • Ps 118:11-12
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    11They kept me in on euery syde, they kept me in I say on euery syde: but I trusted in the name of God that I shoulde destroy them.

    12They swarmed about me lyke bees, and they be extinguished as the fire made of thornes: for I trusted in the name of God that I should destroy them.

  • Ps 109:29
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    29Let mine aduersaries be clothed with shame: & let them couer the selues with their owne cofusion, as with a garment.

  • Ps 69:24
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    24Powre out thine indignation vpon them: and let thy wrathfull displeasure take holde of them.

  • Jer 17:18
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    18Let my persecutours be confounded, but not me: let them be afrayde, and not me: Thou shalt bryng vpon them the tyme of plague, and shalt destroy them right sore.

  • Ps 141:9-10
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    9Kepe me from the snare which they haue layde foorth for me: and from the trappes of them that be workers of iniquitie.

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  • Ps 35:19-20
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    19O let not my deceiptfull enemies triumph ouer me: let them not winke with an eye, that hate me without a cause.

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    2For beholde, thyne enemies make an vprore: and they that hate thee, haue lifted vp their head.

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    12They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long.

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    10For myne enemies speake against me: and they that lay awayte for my soule take their counsayle together.

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    2Hyde me from the secrete counsayles of the malitious: from the conspiracie of the workers of iniquitie.

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    7Therfore myne enemie shalbe founde as the vngodly, and he that taketh part against me, as the vnrighteous.

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    27Let them fall from one wickednesse to another: and let them not enter into thy ryghteousnesse.

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    7Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?