“Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Psalms 140 contains 13 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.