For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
Parallel translations
- WEB For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
- BSB By 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.
- NKJV For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for the cursing and lying which they speak.
- NASB On account of the sin of their mouths and the words of their lips, May they even be caught in their pride, And on account of curses and lies which they tell.
- NLT Because of the sinful things they say, because of the evil that is on their lips, let them be captured by their pride, their curses, and their lies.
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Quick answer
David asks that the wicked be ensnared by their own proud, lying words. Their sins of speech become the means of their judgment.
Overview
David prays that the curses and lies of his enemies trap them in their own pride. This reflects the biblical principle that the wicked are often caught in the very nets they set. God's justice fittingly turns sin back upon the sinner who refuses to repent.
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Cross-references · 17
- Prov 12:13The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
- Hos 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Prov 18:7A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
- Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
- Matt 12:36–37But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.
- Ps 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Ps 120:3–4What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?
- Ps 79:12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
- Matt 27:63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
- Prov 11:6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
- Matt 27:25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
- Prov 6:2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
- Zeph 3:11In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
- Luke 23:5And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
- Ps 109:17–18As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
- Ps 64:7–8But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
- Ps 140:9–10As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
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