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Psalms 140:10
10Drop burning coals on them like rain! Throw those people into the fire! Let them fall into deep holes that they cannot get out of!
Psalms 140:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
- New International Version (NIV)May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, never to rise.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let burning coals fall upon them! Let them be cast into fire, into miry pits, no more to rise!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let burning coals fall upon them; Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Context of Psalms 140:10
8Lord, do not let wicked people do what they want to do. Stop them when they prepare to attack. Selah. 9Give trouble to the people who come round me to attack! Let the bad things that they say against me happen to them instead! Drop burning coals on them like rain! Throw those people into the fire! Let them fall into deep holes that they cannot get out of! 11People who tell cruel lies should not live in our land. Trouble will happen to people who like to fight. Bad trouble will knock them down! 12I know that the Lord helps poor people. He makes sure that they receive justice.
Read all of Psalms 140Psalms 140:10 word by word
יִמּ֥וֹטוּ עֲלֵיהֶ֗ם גֶּֽחָ֫לִ֥ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יַפִּלֵ֑ם בְּ֝מַהֲמֹר֗וֹת בַּֽל־יָקֽוּמוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 140:10
- Psalms 11:6He will send hot coal and sulphur to fall like rain on wicked people. A dangerous wind will be the punishment that they deserve.
- Psalms 18:13The Lord sent thunder from the sky. People everywhere heard the voice of the Most High God.
- Psalms 21:9When you come out to fight against them, you will destroy them like a hot fire. The Lord destroys them, because you are angry with them.
- Psalms 120:4Yes, the sharp arrows of a soldier will hurt you. They will give you pain, like wood that burns with fire.
- Genesis 19:24Then the Lord poured sulphur that was on fire down on Sodom and Gomorrah. It fell from the sky like rain.
- Exodus 9:23When Moses lifted up his stick towards the sky, the Lord sent a great storm. He sent thunder, hail and lightning.
- Revelation 16:8Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. God gave authority to the sun so that it burned people with fire.
- Daniel 3:29No other god can save people like their God has done for them. So I make a command for the people of every nation who speak any language. They must never say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. If anyone does that, my soldiers will cut them into pieces. They will knock down those people's houses so that they become heaps of stones.’
- Matthew 13:42The angels will throw those bad people into the great fire. There the people will cry and they will bite their teeth together.
- Psalms 55:23And as for wicked people, you, God, will send them to their graves. They will go down into the deep hole of death while they are still young. That is what will happen to those cruel people, who kill and cheat others. But I will trust in you, God.
- Proverbs 28:10If you cause a good person to do evil things, your own evil trap will catch you. But people who do nothing wrong will receive good things.
- Revelation 20:15If anyone's name was not written in the book of life, God threw that person into the lake of fire.
- Revelation 21:8But I will punish other people. They include: people who are afraid of trouble; people who do not believe in Jesus; people who do disgusting things; people who murder other people; people who have sex in a wrong way; people who use magic to hurt people; people who worship idols; people who tell lies. All these people will go into the lake of fire that burns with sulphur. That is the second death for people.’
Commentaries on Psalms 140:10
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Let burning coals fall upon them - Let them be punished, “as if” burning coals were poured upon them. See Psalm 11:6, note; Psalm 18:12-13, notes; Psalm 120:4, note. Let them be cast into the fire - Punished as if they were cast into the fire and consumed. Into deep pits, that they rise not up again - That they may utterly perish. This was one mode of punishing, by casting a man into a deep pit from which he could not escape, and leaving him to die…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-13Verses 8-13 Believers may pray that God would not grant the desires of the wicked, nor further their evil devices. False accusers will bring mischief upon themselves, even the burning coals of Divine vengeance. And surely the righteous shall dwell in God's presence, and give him thanks for evermore. This is true thanksgiving, even thanks-living: this use we should make of all our deliverances, we should serve God the more closely and cheerfully. Those…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The psalmist asks for burning coals to fall on his enemies and for them to be thrown into the miry pits, so that they cannot attack again. This language hints at the New Testament teachings on hell (see Matthew 5:22, 29–30; 10:28; 18:9; Mark 9:43–47; Luke 12:5; James 3:6; 2 Peter 2:4).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. (Compare Psa 11:6; 120:4). cast into the fire; into deep pits--figures for utter destruction.Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 10The numbers of those who surround me Armies of the number of the troops of Esau who plan to surround me, may the lies of their lips cover them. (I found.)Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 140
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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