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.

Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

You liars, what will God do to you? How will he punish you?

With a soldier's sharp arrows, with red-hot coals!

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

May red-hot coals fall on them; may they be thrown into a pit and never get out.

The wicked are trapped by their own words, but honest people get themselves out of trouble.

When a fool speaks, he is ruining himself; he gets caught in the trap of his own words.

"You can be sure that on the Judgment Day you will have to give account of every useless word you have ever spoken.

Your words will be used to judge you---to declare you either innocent or guilty."

The whole crowd answered, "Let the responsibility for his death fall on us and on our children!"

and said, "Sir, we remember that while that liar was still alive he said, 'I will be raised to life three days later.'

The wicked are proud and persecute the poor; catch them in the traps they have made.

Have you been caught by your own words, trapped by your own promises?

Righteousness rescues those who are honest, but those who can't be trusted are trapped by their own greed.

He loved to curse---may he be cursed! He hated to give blessings---may no one bless him!

He cursed as naturally as he dressed himself; may his own curses soak into his body like water and into his bones like oil!

They make promises and break them; they lie, murder, steal, and commit adultery. Crimes increase, and there is one murder after another.

But they insisted even more strongly, "With his teaching he is starting a riot among the people all through Judea. He began in Galilee and now has come here."