Psalms 7:16
His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown. 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
15He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. 1
Cross References
1 Samuel 23:9And David knew that Saul + 23:9 Gr. is not silent concerning. spoke openly of mischief against him: and David said to Abiathar the priest, Bring the ephod of the Lord.
1 Samuel 26:10And David said, As the Lord lives, if the Lord strike him not, or his day come and he die, or he go down to battle and be added to his fathers, do not so.
1 Samuel 31:3And the battle prevails against Saul, and the shooters with arrows, even the archers find him, and he was wounded + 31:3 Lit. in the hypochondria. under the ribs.
1 Kings 21:19and let not the young men the heads of the districts go forth of the city. And the force that was behind them
Esther 9:25also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.
Psalms 9:16The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. A song of Pause. 1
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 →