Psalms 140:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Psalms 140:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
Proverbs 12:13
The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
Psalms 94:23
And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.
Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-13)

Here is the believing foresight David had, I. Of the shame and confusion of persecutors. 1. Their disappointment. This he prays for (Ps. 140:8), that their lusts might not be gratified, their lust of ambition, envy, and revenge: “ Grant not, O Lord! the desires of the wicked, but frustrate them; let them not see the ruin of my interest, which they so earnestly wish to see; but hear the voice of my…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Contrasts his head covered by God (Psa 140:7) with theirs, or (as “head” may be used for “persons”) with them, covered with the results of their wicked deeds (Psa 7:16).