Whoever digs a pit may fall into it;(A)
    whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.(B)

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He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

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27 Whoever digs a pit(A) will fall into it;(B)
    if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.(C)

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27 Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

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19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,(A)
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.(B)

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19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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10 So they impaled(A) Haman(B) on the pole(C) he had set up for Mordecai.(D) Then the king’s fury subsided.(E)

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10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

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He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers,(A) the sons of Jerub-Baal. But Jotham,(B) the youngest son of Jerub-Baal, escaped by hiding.(C)

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And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.

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Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,(A)
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.(B)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,(C)
    there I will command the serpent(D) to bite them.(E)

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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

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15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug;(A)
    their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.(B)
16 The Lord is known by his acts of justice;
    the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9:16 The Hebrew has Higgaion and Selah (words of uncertain meaning) here; Selah occurs also at the end of verse 20.

15 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

16 The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

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15 Whoever digs a hole and scoops it out
    falls into the pit(A) they have made.(B)
16 The trouble they cause recoils on them;
    their violence comes down on their own heads.

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15 He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

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15 And ten of Joab’s armor-bearers surrounded Absalom, struck him and killed him.(A)

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15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.

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23 When Ahithophel saw that his advice(A) had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and set out for his house in his hometown. He put his house in order(B) and then hanged himself. So he died and was buried in his father’s tomb.

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23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

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53 a woman dropped an upper millstone on his head and cracked his skull.(A)

54 Hurriedly he called to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword and kill me,(B) so that they can’t say, ‘A woman killed him.’” So his servant ran him through, and he died. 55 When the Israelites saw that Abimelek was dead, they went home.

56 Thus God repaid the wickedness that Abimelek had done to his father by murdering his seventy brothers. 57 God also made the people of Shechem pay for all their wickedness.(C) The curse of Jotham(D) son of Jerub-Baal came on them.

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53 And a certain woman cast a piece of a millstone upon Abimelech's head, and all to brake his skull.

54 Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A women slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.

56 Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

57 And all the evil of the men of Shechem did God render upon their heads: and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.

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