Psalm 140:10 {139:11}
Good News Translation
May red-hot coals fall on them; may they be thrown into a pit and never get out.

New Revised Standard Version
Let burning coals fall on them! Let them be flung into pits, no more to rise!

Contemporary English Version
Dump flaming coals on them and throw them into pits where they can't climb out.

New American Bible
Drop burning coals upon them; cast them into the watery pit never more to rise.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.

burning coals

Psalm 11:6 The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 18:13,14 And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Highest gave his voice: hail and coals of fire. . . .

Psalm 21:9 Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

Psalm 120:4 The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Genesis 19:24 And the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorrha brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

Exodus 9:23,24 And Moses stretched forth his rod towards heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightnings running along the ground: and the Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt. . . .

Revelation 16:8,9 And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. . . .

let them

Daniel 3:29-25 For we have sinned, and committed iniquity, departing from thee: and we have trespassed in all things: . . .

Matthew 13:42,50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. . . .

into keep

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 28:10,17 He that deceiveth the just in a wicked way, shall fall in his own destruction: and the upright shall possess his goods. . . .

Revelation 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the pool of fire.

Revelation 21:8 But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Context
Rescue Me, O LORD, From Evil Men
9The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them. 10Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire: in miseries they shall not be able to stand.11A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.…
Cross References
Matthew 3:10
For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.

Psalm 11:6
The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

Psalm 18:12
At the brightness that was before him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire.

Psalm 21:9
Thou shalt make them as an oven of fire, in the time of thy anger: the Lord shall trouble them in his wrath, and fire shall devour them.

Psalm 36:12
There the workers of iniquity are fallen, they are cast out, and could not stand.

Psalm 120:4
The sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals that lay waste.

Psalm 140:9
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