Proverbs 26:27
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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.
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"Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord" (Rom 12:19). Evil men will not get away with conspiracies against the upright. The righteous God takes the wise in their own craftiness (Job 5:13), and He takes the wicked in their own cruelty (11:6; Ps 10:2). Let the righteous not seek revenge, for the Lord is against it and will do better Himself!
The context of the lesson is how the wicked use their mouths to persecute the righteous with deceit and talebearing (18-28). And though they cover their hatred and evil designs ever so cleverly, our omniscient Jehovah will expose their deceit and judge them openly.
Hunters once caught wild animals by digging a pit and covering it with a thin layer of dirt. The animal, not seeing the pit beneath the leaves and grass, would fall into it. The wicked dig metaphorical pits for saints, but the Lord leads them to fall in their own traps.
In war, men would roll great stones - too heavy to lift - from walls or cliffs to crush their enemies. But the Lord promises such figurative stones will roll back on the wicked! God's revenge is best; we must restrain our own and wait for it, for His will surely come!
Christian saint, if you have enemies, fear not! The Lord of glory neither slumbers nor sleeps. When the wicked conspire against you, He will turn their devices on their own heads (28:10; Ps 7:15-16; Eccl 10:8-9). Yea, the Lord wants to be known by this divine judgment (Ps 9:15-16; 57:5-7)! Consider it well! Higgaion! Selah! Give God the glory!
Abimelech died by a stone, after slaying 70 men on a stone (Judges 9:18,53); Moab was cursed by the very man they hired to curse Israel (Num 24:17); Haman died on the gallows he had built for Mordecai (Esth 7:10); Ahab's blood was licked by dogs in the very place they licked Naboth's (I Kgs 21:19); Israel burned their children at Tophet, so God filled the same place with their bodies (Jer 7:31-32); the conspirators against Daniel were destroyed horribly by the very lions they planned for him (Dan 6:24); and the Jews crucified Jesus to save their nation, but it brought utter destruction by Rome (John 11:50).
Do you know a hypocrite? Do you have an enemy? Is someone causing you strife? His wickedness will be exposed, and God will turn his cruelty on his head (18-28). Glory!
Wicked men devise traps and trouble for the righteous, and the righteous are to love them in return. Who will defend them? There is a God in heaven, and He will avenge His saints. And His vengeance is often to turn their own devices on their own heads.
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