Psalms 10:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

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  • Ps 59:3 : 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 17:12 : 12 Like as a lion [that] is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Mic 7:2 : 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.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 ¶ Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid? 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
  • 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.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 [There is] a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jordan is spoiled.
  • John 10:12 : 12 ‹But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.›
  • Acts 23:21 : 21 But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who [is] like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
  • Ps 37:14 : 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.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set [him] in safety [from him that] puffeth at him.
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save [him] from those that condemn his soul.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 ¶ He that oppresseth the poor to increase his [riches, and] he that giveth to the rich, [shall] surely [come] to want.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 ¶ [As] a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; [so is] a wicked ruler over the poor people.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What mean ye [that] ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Isa 32:7 : 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.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked [men]: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
  • Ezek 19:3-6 : 3 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, [and] her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, [and] made him a young lion. 6 And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the [same] maid, to profane my holy name:
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate [from their right].

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 10:7-8
    2 verses
    89%

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

    8He 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.

  • Ps 10:10
    87%

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

  • Ps 17:11-12
    2 verses
    83%

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

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

  • Job 18:8-10
    3 verses
    81%

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

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

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

  • Lam 3:10-11
    2 verses
    81%

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

    11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

  • Prov 1:17-18
    2 verses
    78%

    17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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

  • Ps 10:2
    77%

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

  • Jer 5:26-27
    2 verses
    77%

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

    27As a cage is full of birds, so [are] their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

  • Job 38:39-40
    2 verses
    77%

    39Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,

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

  • Ps 35:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7For without cause have they hid for me their net [in] a pit, [which] without cause they have digged for my soul.

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

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

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

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

  • Nah 2:12
    74%

    12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Ps 9:15
    73%

    15The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Ps 37:14
    73%

    14The 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.

  • Jer 25:38
    73%

    38He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

  • Ps 140:5
    73%

    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Isa 5:29
    73%

    29Their roaring [shall be] like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry [it] away safe, and none shall deliver [it].

  • Job 24:14
    73%

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

  • Ezek 19:8
    73%

    8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces, and spread their net over him: he was taken in their pit.

  • Prov 1:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

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

    12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

  • Job 22:10
    72%

    10Therefore snares [are] round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;

  • Ps 22:13
    72%

    13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 64:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Ps 141:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.

    10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.

  • Isa 10:2
    72%

    2To 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 11:2
    72%

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

  • Ps 7:2
    72%

    2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending [it] in pieces, while [there is] none to deliver.

  • Ps 37:12
    72%

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

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22Let 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.

  • Hos 13:7
    72%

    7Therefore I will be unto them as a lion: as a leopard by the way will I observe [them]:

  • Ps 56:6
    72%

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

  • Isa 32:7
    71%

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

  • Ezek 19:6
    71%

    6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch the prey, [and] devoured men.

  • Ps 59:3
    71%

    3For, 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 109:11
    71%

    11Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

  • Num 23:24
    71%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat [of] the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
    71%

    8¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: