Tree of Life Version
Psalms 64:8
8But God will shoot them with an arrow— suddenly their wounds will appear.
Psalms 64:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.
- New International Version (NIV)He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.
Context of Psalms 64:8
6They are firming up their evil plan. They talk about setting secret traps. They asked, “Who would see them?” 7They are plotting injustices: “We have completed a perfect plot!” A man’s inward part and heart are deep. But God will shoot them with an arrow— suddenly their wounds will appear. 9So their tongue will be their downfall. All who see them will flee away. 10Then all men will fear. So they will declare the work of God, and ponder what He has done.
Read all of Psalms 64Psalms 64:8 word by word
וַיַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ עָלֵ֣ימוֹ לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ כָּל־רֹ֥אֵה בָֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 64:8
- Psalms 59:12Do not slay them, lest my people forget. With Your power shake them and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
- Psalms 140:9Grant not, Adonai, the desires of the wicked. Do not let their evil plan succeed, or they will exalt themselves. Selah
- Job 15:6Your own mouth condemns you—not I; your own lips testify against you.
- Proverbs 12:13An evil one is ensnared by the sin of lips, but the righteous one escapes trouble.
- Proverbs 18:7A fool’s mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.
- Matthew 21:41“He will bring those miserable men to a miserable end,” they said to Him, “and will lease the vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share of the fruits in their seasons.”
- Luke 19:22He said to him, ‘By the words of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked slave! You knew that I am strict, taking what I did not make and reaping what I did not sow?
- Psalms 31:11For my life is consumed in sorrow and my years in sighing. My strength fails because of my anguish and my bones waste away.
- Psalms 52:6You love only devouring words— treacherous tongue!
- Numbers 16:34All Israel around them fled at their outcry, for they shouted, “Perhaps the earth will swallow us!”
- 1 Samuel 31:3When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers hit him, so he was severely wounded by the archers.
- Nahum 3:7So it will be that all who see you will recoil from you and say, “Nineveh has been ravaged! Who will lament for her?” Where will I find comforters for you?
- Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you participate in her sins and receive her plagues!
Commentaries on Psalms 64:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Their own tongue to fall upon them-selves - All the plottings, counsels, and curses, they have formed against me, shall come upon themselves.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves - In Psalm 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-10Verses 7-10 When God brings upon men the mischiefs they have desired on others, it is weight enough to sink a man to the lowest hell. Those who love cursing, it shall come upon them. Those who behold this shall understand, and observe God's hand in all; unless we do so, we are not likely to profit by the dispensations of Providence. The righteous shall be glad in the Lord; not glad of the misery and ruin of their fellow-creatures, but glad that God is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-10God acts righteously. God stops wickedness and gives the wicked what they intended for others.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. their ... tongue to fall, &c.--that is, the consequences of their slanders, &c. (compare Psa 10:2; 31:16). all that see ... away--Their partners in evil shall be terrified.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 64
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- 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
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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