Psalms 7:16
On their own heads their mischief comes back; on their own skulls their violence comes down.
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In Context
15a pit they have made and dug; but into the hole that they made they will fall.
17I will give thanks to the Lord for his justice, and sing to the name of the Lord Most High.
Cross References
Esther 9:25But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is revealed in the judgment he wrought, the wicked are snared in their own handiwork. 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 →