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17 His malice turns back upon his head;
    his violence falls on his own skull.

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17 I will give thanks to the Lord because of his righteousness;(A)
    I will sing the praises(B) of the name of the Lord Most High.(C)

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[a]Moreover, what are you doing to me, Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are, I will very quickly turn your deeds back upon your own head.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4:4–8 This prose material may be a later addition to the book. It illustrates a common biblical theme (cf. Ps 7:16; 9:16; 35:8; 37:14–15; 57:7), having one’s evil deed (selling Judahites into slavery) turned into one’s own punishment (being sold into slavery by the Judahites).
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Look! I am rousing them from the place to which you sold them, and I will turn your deeds back upon your own head.

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19 See, the storm of the Lord!
    His wrath breaks forth
In a whirling storm
    that bursts upon the heads of the wicked.(A)

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19 See, the storm(A) of the Lord
    will burst out in wrath,
a whirlwind(B) swirling down
    on the heads of the wicked.

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31 Therefore I have poured out my fury upon them; with my fiery wrath I have consumed them, bringing down their ways upon their heads—oracle of the Lord God.

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31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger,(A) bringing down(B) on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign Lord.(C)

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