But in the traps they set for others, they themselves get caught.

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

But destruction will catch them before they know it; they will be caught in their own trap and fall to their destruction!

The wicked draw their swords and bend their bows to kill the poor and needy, to slaughter those who do what is right;

but they will be killed by their own swords, and their bows will be smashed.

But God shoots his arrows at them, and suddenly they are wounded.

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

Don't let my enemies be victorious; make their threats against me fall back on them.

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai. Then the king's anger cooled down.

The righteous are protected from trouble; it comes to the wicked instead.