Psalm 64:8
New International Version
He will turn their own tongues against them and bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

New Living Translation
Their own tongues will ruin them, and all who see them will shake their heads in scorn.

English Standard Version
They are brought to ruin, with their own tongues turned against them; all who see them will wag their heads.

Berean Standard Bible
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

King James Bible
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

New King James Version
So He will make them stumble over their own tongue; All who see them shall flee away.

New American Standard Bible
So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake their heads.

NASB 1995
So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake the head.

NASB 1977
So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake the head.

Legacy Standard Bible
So they will cause their own tongue to turn against them; All who see them will shake their head.

Amplified Bible
So they will be caused to stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who gaze at them will shake the head [in scorn].

Christian Standard Bible
They will be made to stumble; their own tongues work against them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They will be made to stumble; their own tongues work against them. All who see them will shake their heads.

American Standard Version
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Their tongues will become diseased and all who see them will be afraid.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and their tongues have set him at nought, all that saw them were troubled;

Contemporary English Version
They will be destroyed by their own words, and everyone who sees them will tremble with fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
and their tongues against them are made weak. All that saw them were troubled;

English Revised Version
So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: all that see them shall wag the head.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They will trip over their own tongues. Everyone who sees them will shake his head.

Good News Translation
He will destroy them because of those words; all who see them will shake their heads.

International Standard Version
They tripped over their own tongues, and everyone who was watching ran away.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So they make their own tongue a stumbling unto themselves; All that see them shake the head.

Literal Standard Version
And they cause him to stumble, | Their own tongue [is] against them, | Every looker on them flees away.

Majority Standard Bible
They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.

New American Bible
They are brought down by their own tongues; all who see them flee.

NET Bible
Their slander will bring about their demise. All who see them will shudder,

New Revised Standard Version
Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin; all who see them will shake with horror.

New Heart English Bible
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Webster's Bible Translation
So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

World English Bible
Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.

Young's Literal Translation
And they cause him to stumble, Against them is their own tongue, Every looker on them fleeth away.

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Context
The Hurtful Tongue
7But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded. 8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads. 9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.…

Cross References
Psalm 9:3
When my enemies retreat, they stumble and perish before You.

Psalm 22:7
All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Psalm 44:14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.

Proverbs 12:13
An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.

Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Jeremiah 18:16
They have made their land a desolation, a perpetual object of scorn; all who pass by will be appalled and shake their heads.

Jeremiah 48:27
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.


Treasury of Scripture

So they shall make their own tongue to fall on themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

tongue

Psalm 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

Psalm 140:9
As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

Job 15:6
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

all that

Psalm 31:11
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.

Psalm 52:6
The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:

Numbers 16:34
And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.

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Psalm 64
1. David prays for deliverance, complaining of his enemies
7. He promises himself to see such an evident destruction of his enemies,
10. as the righteous shall rejoice at it.














Verse 8. - So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; rather, so shall they be made to stumble; their own tongue shall be against them. The tongue, which they "whetted like a sword," shall be the principal means of bringing them into trouble (see 2 Samuel 17:1-23). All that see them shall flee away; rather, shall wag the head (Cheyne, Revised Version) in derision.

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Hebrew
They will be made to stumble,
וַיַּכְשִׁיל֣וּהוּ (way·yaḵ·šî·lū·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3782: To totter, waver, to falter, stumble, faint, fall

their own tongues
לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם (lə·šō·w·nām)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3956: The tongue

turned against them.
עָלֵ֣ימוֹ (‘ā·lê·mōw)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

All
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

who see
רֹ֥אֵה (rō·’êh)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7200: To see

will shake their heads.
יִ֝תְנֹדֲד֗וּ (yiṯ·nō·ḏă·ḏū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5074: To wave to and fro, to rove, flee, to drive away


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