Psalms 10:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

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  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced with his own staves the head of his villages. They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me; their rejoicing was like to devour the poor secretly.
  • Luke 8:1 : 1 And it happened afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and showing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve were with him,
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before him into every city and place where he himself would come.
  • 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn you, and attack the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and killed on that day eighty-five persons that wore a linen ephod.
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin by which he made Judah sin, in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
  • Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth. 13 He winks with his eyes, he speaks with his feet, he teaches with his fingers;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

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    9He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; he lies in wait to catch the poor; he catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

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    11He has said in his heart, God has forgotten; He hides His face; He will never see it.

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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

    12Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

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    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • Job 24:14-15
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    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like a thief.

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    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare.

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  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

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    14The wicked have drawn the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.

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    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

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    26For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

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    8Let destruction come upon him unexpectedly, and let his net that he has hidden catch himself; into that very destruction let him fall.

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  • Isa 32:7
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    7The schemes of the miser are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks what is right.

  • Prov 16:30
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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

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    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.