The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 64:8

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; rather, so shall they be made to stumble; their own tongue shall be against them. The tongue, which they "whetted like a sword," shall be the principal means of bringing them into trouble (see 2 Samuel 17:1-23).

All that see them shall flee away; rather, shall wag the head (Cheyne, Revised Version) in derision.

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