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10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
    while I alone escape.(A)

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Let ruin come on them unawares,
and let the net that they hid ensnare them;
    let them fall in it—to their ruin.(A)

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Those who surround me lift up their heads;[a]
    let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!(A)

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  1. 140.9 Cn: Heb those who surround me are uplifted in head

But God will shoot his arrow at them;
    they will be wounded suddenly.
Because of their tongue he will bring them to ruin;[a]
    all who see them will shake with horror.(A)

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  1. 64.8 Cn: Heb They will bring him to ruin, their tongue being against them

14 The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows
    to bring down the poor and needy,
    to kill those who walk uprightly;(A)
15 their sword shall enter their own heart,
    and their bows shall be broken.(B)

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10 So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

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The righteous are delivered from trouble,
    and the wicked come into it instead.(A)

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15 They make a pit, digging it out,
    and fall into the hole that they have made.(A)
16 Their mischief returns upon their own heads,
    and on their own heads their violence descends.(B)

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