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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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    He sits in ambush in the villages; in the hiding places he murders the innocent; his eyes stealthily watch for the helpless.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    He sitteth{H3427} in the lurking-places{H3993} of the villages;{H2691} In the secret places{H3993} doth he murder{H2026} the innocent;{H5355} His eyes{H5869} are privily set{H6845} against the helpless.{H2489}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    He sitteth{H3427}{(H8799)} in the lurking places{H3993} of the villages{H2691}: in the secret places{H4565} doth he murder{H2026}{(H8799)} the innocent{H5355}: his eyes{H5869} are privily set{H6845}{(H8799)} against the poor{H2489}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    He lyeth waytinge secretly, as it were a lyon in his denne. He lurketh that he maye rauysh the poore,

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murther the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    He sitteth lurkyng in theeuishe corners of the streates: and priuily in lurking dennes he doth murther the innocent, he eyeth diligently hym that is weake.

  • 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 helpless.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 helpless.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

Referenced Verses

  • 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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