Psalms 7:16
The trouble they cause rebounds to hit them on the head; their violence against others comes down on their own skulls.
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15They dig a deep hole to catch people, but then fall into it themselves.
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:9When David learned that Saul was plotting to attack him, he asked Abiathar the priest, “Please bring the ephod.”
1 Samuel 26:10As the Lord lives, the Lord himself will kill him. Either his time will come and he'll die, or he will go into battle and be killed.
1 Samuel 31:3The fighting became very intense around Saul, and the arrows of the Philistine archers found their target, wounding Saul very badly.
1 Kings 21:19Tell him: This is what the Lord says: Have you murdered a man and robbed him? Then tell him: This is what the Lord says: In the very spot where dogs licked up Naboth's blood, dogs will lick up your own blood.”
Esther 9:25But when it came to the king's attention, he sent out letters ordering that the evil scheme which Haman had planned against the Jews should rebound on him, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is known for his fairness; the wicked are trapped by their own actions. Higgaion. Selah.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 7:11-17
The Persecutor's Doom. 10 My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart. 11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. 12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. 13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. 14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. 15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he… Read the whole commentary →