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Selected Verse: Psalms 64:8 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 64:8 |
King James |
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
their . . . tongue to fall, &c.--that is, the consequences of their slanders, &c. (compare Psa 10:2; Psa 31:16).
all that see . . . away--Their partners in evil shall be terrified. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves - In Psa 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 down, and they would fall as if smitten by their own tongue like a sword. It is not said who would do this, but the most natural interpretation is that it would be done by God. The idea is, that the instrument which they had employed to injure others would be the means of their own ruin.
All that see them shall flee away - Compare Psa 31:11. That is, they shall flee in consternation from those who are so fearfully overthrown. They shall see that God is just, and that He will punish the wicked; and they will desire to escape from a ruin so dreadful as that which comes upon the ungodly. The idea is, that when God punishes sinners, the effect on others is, and should be, to lead them to wish not to be associated with such people, but to escape from a doom so fearful. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Flee - Through fear of being involved in their destruction. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Their own tongue to fall upon them-selves - All the plottings, counsels, and curses, they have formed against me, shall come upon themselves. |
16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies' sake.
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
11 I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: