“As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.”

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.