Sálmarnir 64:8

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8 (64:9) og tunga þeirra verður þeim að falli. Allir þeir er sjá þá, munu hrista höfuðið.

Bible Verse Review
  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.