the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 64:8
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Their own tongues will ruin them, and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: all that see them shall wag the head.
And they made their own tongue stumble against themselves: All that see them shall wag the head.
Their own words will be used against them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
So they will be caused to stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].
They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
and the tungis of hem ben maad sijk ayens hem. Alle men ben disturblid, that sien hem;
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
They will be destroyed by their own words, and everyone who sees them will tremble with fear.
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.
The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
Suddenly God shoots them down with an arrow, leaving them with wounds;
By their own tongue they are made to fall over one another: all that see them shall flee away.
But God doth shoot at them with an arrow suddenly; thence are their wounds.
So they shall make their owne tongue to fall vpon themselues: all that see them, shall flee away.
They will be made to trip and fall. Their own tongue is against them. All who see them will shake their heads.
Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.
They shall cause their owne tongue to fall vpon them: and whosoeuer shall see them, shall flee away.
So shall their tongues be silenced, and all that see them shall be frightened.
He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.
When they were to have ruined another, their tongue smote themselves, All who observe them take flight.
(63-9) And their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;
Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will wag their heads.
Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away [from them]
and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled;
They will be made to stumble;their own tongues work against them.All who see them will shake their heads.
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
And they who would cause him to stumble, their own tongue will be against them. All who gaze on them will shake.
So they shall be confounded; their tongue falls upon themselves; everyone seeing them shall flee.
And they cause him to stumble, Against them [is] their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.
Yee their owne tunges shall make them fall, In so moch that who so seyth the, shal laugh the to scorne.
So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake their heads.
So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.
So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake the head.
So they will cause their own tongue to turn against them;All who see them will shake their head.
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
tongue: Psalms 59:12, Psalms 140:9, Job 15:6, Proverbs 12:13, Proverbs 18:7, Matthew 21:41, Luke 19:22
all that: Psalms 31:11, Psalms 52:6, Numbers 16:34, 1 Samuel 31:3-7, Nahum 3:7, Revelation 18:4, Revelation 18:10
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:23 - spoken Psalms 58:7 - General Psalms 94:23 - And he Psalms 109:27 - General Psalms 138:7 - thou shalt stretch Psalms 141:10 - the wicked Proverbs 26:7 - so Ecclesiastes 10:12 - but Jeremiah 9:8 - tongue Jeremiah 23:36 - for every Matthew 23:31 - witnesses Luke 11:48 - ye bear
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So shall they make their own tongue to fall upon themselves,.... The evil things they have wished for, threatened unto, and imprecated on others, shall come upon themselves; the curses they have cursed others with shall come upon themselves; the pit they have dug for others, they fall into. So Haman, to whom some apply the psalm, was hanged on the gallows he made for Mordecai; and the accusers of Daniel, to whom others apply it, were cast into the same den of lions they procured for him; and Babylon, who has been drunk with the blood of the saints, shall have blood given her to drink.
all that see them shall flee away; not being able to help them, nor to bear the horrible sight, and fearing the same judgments should fall on themselves; see Numbers 16:34. Or, "they shall move themselves" d; shake their heads in a way of derision, as Jarchi interprets it; or skip for joy, as the word is rendered in Jeremiah 48:27; and then it must be understood of the righteous; who, seeing the vengeance on the wicked, rejoice, as in Psalms 52:6; though, as they are afterwards particularly mentioned, others seem to be designed. The word is used for lamenting and bemoaning one's self, in Jeremiah 31:18; and so may be applied to the friends of the wicked lamenting and bemoaning their ruin, and their being bereaved of them, Revelation 18:9.
d יתנודרו "amovebunt se", Montanus; "commovebuntur", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves - In Psalms 64:3, their tongue is represented as a sword; and here, keeping up the figure, the tongue, as a sword, is represented as falling on them, or as inflicting the wound on themselves which they had intended to inflict on others. This might be rendered, “And they have cast him down; upon them is their own tongue;” or, “Upon them their own tongue has come.” That is, someone would cast them down, and they would fall as if smitten by their own tongue like a sword. It is not said who would do this, but the most natural interpretation is that it would be done by God. The idea is, that the instrument which they had employed to injure others would be the means of their own ruin.
All that see them shall flee away - Compare Psalms 31:11. That is, they shall flee in consternation from those who are so fearfully overthrown. They shall see that God is just, and that He will punish the wicked; and they will desire to escape from a ruin so dreadful as that which comes upon the ungodly. The idea is, that when God punishes sinners, the effect on others is, and should be, to lead them to wish not to be associated with such people, but to escape from a doom so fearful.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 64:8. Their own tongue to fall upon them-selves — All the plottings, counsels, and curses, they have formed against me, shall come upon themselves.
