Psalm 7:16 {17}
Good News Translation
So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

New Revised Standard Version
Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Contemporary English Version
The trouble they cause comes back on them, and their heads are crushed by their own evil deeds.

New American Bible
His malice turns back upon his head; his violence falls on his own skull.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.

Psalm 36:4,12 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated. . . .

Psalm 37:12,13 The sinner shall watch the just man: and shall gnash upon him with his teeth. . . .

1 Samuel 23:9 Now when David understood that Saul secretly prepared evil against him, he said to Abiathar, the priest: Bring hither the ephod.

1 Samuel 24:12,13 The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord revenge me of thee: but my hand shall not be upon thee. . . .

1 Samuel 26:10 And David said: As the Lord liveth, unless the Lord shall strike him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall go down to battle, and perish:

1 Samuel 28:19 And the Lord also will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines: and to morrow thou and thy sons shall be with me: and the Lord will also deliver the army of Israel into the hands of the Philistines.

1 Samuel 31:3,4 And the whole weight of the battle was turned upon Saul: and the archers overtook him, and he was grievously wounded by the archers. . . .

1 Kings 2:32 And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

Esther 9:25 And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavors might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

Malachi 2:3-5 Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it. . . .

Context
I Take Refuge in You
15He hath opened a pit and dug it: and he is fallen into the hole he made. 16His sorrow shall be turned on his own head: and his iniquity shall come down upon his crown.17I will give glory to the Lord according to his justice: and will sing to the name of the Lord the most high.…
Cross References
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head; because he murdered two men, just and better than himself: and slew them with the sword, my father, David, not knowing it; Abner, the son of Ner, general of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether general of the army of Juda;

1 Kings 2:44
And the king said to Semei: Thou knowest all the evil, of which thy heart is conscious, which thou didst to David, my father: the Lord hath returned thy wickedness upon thy own head.

Esther 7:10
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.

Esther 9:25
And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavors might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

Psalm 9:15
I will rejoice in thy salvation: the Gentiles have stuck fast in the destruction which they prepared. Their foot hath been taken in the very snare which they hid.

Psalm 10:2
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 94:23
And he will render them their iniquity : and in their malice he will destroy them: the Lord our God will destroy them.

Psalm 140:9
The head of them compassing me about: the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.

Psalm 140:11
A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth: evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.

Proverbs 11:6
When the wicked man is dead, there shall be no hope any more: and the expectation of the solicitous shall perish.

Proverbs 11:27
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the just shall spring up as a green leaf.

Psalm 7:15
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