Psalms 10:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.
  • Luke 8:1 : 1 ¶ And it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God: and the twelve [were] with him,
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 ¶ After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.
  • 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing 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 lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 ¶ A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. 13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 10:9-11
    3 verses
    89%

    9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

    10 He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

    11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].

  • Ps 10:7
    78%

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

  • Prov 1:18
    77%

    18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    77%

    11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

    12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Ps 10:2
    76%

    2 The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

  • Job 24:14-15
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    76%

    14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

    15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth [his] face.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 For, lo, the wicked bend [their] bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Lam 3:10
    75%

    10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    74%

    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.

    9 The gin shall take [him] by the heel, [and] the robber shall prevail against him.

    10 The snare [is] laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

  • Ps 37:14
    74%

    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    74%

    4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

    5 They encourage themselves [in] an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 37:12
    74%

    12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

  • Jer 5:26
    73%

    26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15 ¶ Lay not wait, O wicked [man], against the dwelling of the righteous; spoil not his resting place:

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.

  • Ps 36:4
    72%

    4 He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way [that is] not good; he abhorreth not evil.

  • Isa 32:7
    72%

    7 The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

  • Prov 16:30
    71%

    30 He shutteth his eyes to devise froward things: moving his lips he bringeth evil to pass.

  • Job 38:40
    71%

    40 When they couch in [their] dens, [and] abide in the covert to lie in wait?

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6 They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

  • Isa 10:2
    71%

    2 To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and [that] they may rob the fatherless!

  • Ps 109:16
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    16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

  • Jer 18:22
    71%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Prov 28:15
    70%

    15 ¶ [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.

  • Ps 140:11
    70%

    11 Let not an evil speaker be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the violent man to overthrow [him].

  • Jer 9:8
    70%

    8 Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • Job 33:10
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    10 Behold, he findeth occasions against me, he counteth me for his enemy,

  • Prov 21:10
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    10 ¶ The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

  • Ps 94:21
    70%

    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    70%

    2 The good [man] is perished out of the earth: and [there is] none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

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  • Ps 7:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

    14 Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14 Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD.

  • Ps 64:2
    70%

    2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

  • Job 15:28
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    28 And he dwelleth in desolate cities, [and] in houses which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

  • Prov 6:17
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    17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Isa 59:7
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    7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction [are] in their paths.

  • Hab 3:14
    69%

    14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing [was] as to devour the poor secretly.

  • Jer 22:17
    69%

    17 But thine eyes and thine heart [are] not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do [it].