Psalms 64:8
You stir up the depths of the sea, the noise of its waves. The nations will be troubled,
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
In Context
7You prepare the mountains in your virtue, wrapped with power.
Cross References
Numbers 16:34Yet truly, all of Israel, which was standing all around, took flight at the clamor of those who were perishing, saying, “Lest perhaps the earth may swallow us whole also.”
Job 15:6Your own mouth will condemn you, not I; and your own lips will answer you.
Psalms 52:6They have not called upon God. In that place, they have trembled in fear, where there was no fear. For God has scattered the bones of those who please men. They have been confounded, because God has spurned them.
Psalms 140:9Protect me from the snare that they have set up for me and from the scandals of those who work iniquity.
Proverbs 12:13For the sins of the lips draw ruin to the evil. But the just shall escape from distress.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 64:8-10
God's Judgments on Persecutors. 7 But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded. 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. 9 And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing. 10 The righteous shall be glad in the Lord , and shall trust in him; and all the upright in heart shall glory. We may observe here, I. The judgments of God which should certainly come upon these malicious… Read the whole commentary →