Psalms 10:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

He 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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  • Ps 59:3 : 3 For, look, they lie in wait for my life; the mighty are gathered against me, not for my transgression nor for my sin, O LORD.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 Like a lion that is eager for its prey, and as a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's cub, and none made them afraid? 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with plunder.
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 They take up all of them with a hook, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their dragnet; therefore they rejoice and are glad.
  • 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.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 There is the sound of the howling of the shepherds, for their glory is destroyed. The sound of the roaring of young lions, for the pride of Jordan is laid waste.
  • John 10:12 : 12 But the hired hand, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
  • Acts 23:21 : 21 But do not yield to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for a promise from you.
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and the needy from him who plunders him?
  • Ps 37:14 : 14 The 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.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, says the LORD; I will set him in safety from him who puffs at him.
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from those who condemn his soul.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker, but he who honors Him has mercy on the poor.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he who gives to the rich, shall surely come to want.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What do you mean by crushing My people, and grinding the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The 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.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay in wait, as he who sets snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.
  • Ezek 19:3-6 : 3 And she brought up one of her cubs; it became a young lion, and it learned to catch prey; it devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was caught in their pit, and they brought him with chains to the land of Egypt. 5 Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her cubs, 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 prey, and devoured men.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and committed robbery, and have wronged the poor and needy: yes, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes: 7 They 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 go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Will a young lion cry out of his den, if he has taken nothing?
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many 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.

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  • Ps 10:7-8
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    89%

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

    8He sits in the lurking places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

  • Ps 10:10
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    10He crouches and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

  • 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.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    81%

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

    9The trap 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
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    10He was to me like a bear lying in wait, and like a lion in hiding.

    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    78%

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

    18And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    77%

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

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

  • Job 38:39-40
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    77%

    39Will you hunt the prey for the lion, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40When they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thickets?

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    76%

    7For without cause they have hidden their net for me in a pit, which they have dug without cause for my soul.

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

  • Prov 28:15
    75%

    15As a roaring lion and a raging bear, so is a wicked ruler over poor people.

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32The wicked watch the righteous, and seek to slay him.

  • Nah 2:12
    74%

    12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with plunder.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • Ps 37:14
    73%

    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.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38He has forsaken His shelter, like a 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 hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Isa 5:29
    73%

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

  • Job 24:14
    73%

    14The murderer, rising with the light, kills the poor and needy, and in the night is like 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 caught in their pit.

  • Prov 1:11-12
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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;

    12Let us swallow them alive like the grave, and whole, like those who go down into the pit;

  • Job 22:10
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    10Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you;

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.

    5They encourage themselves in an evil matter; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Ps 141:9-10
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    72%

    9Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and the traps of the workers of iniquity.

    10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I escape completely.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Ps 11:2
    72%

    2For behold, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, to secretly shoot at the upright in heart.

  • Ps 7:2
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    2Lest they tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked plot against the just and gnash at him with their teeth.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have dug a pit to take me, and hidden snares for my feet.

  • Hos 13:7
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    7Therefore I will be to them as a lion: as a leopard by the way I will observe them:

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, waiting for my life.

  • Isa 32:7
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 19:6
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    6And he went up and down among the lions, he became a young lion, and learned to catch prey, and devoured men.

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

  • Ps 109:11
    71%

    11Let the extortioner seize all that he has, and let strangers plunder his labor.

  • Num 23:24
    71%

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion and lift himself up like a young lion; he shall not lie down until he eats of the prey and drinks the blood of the slain.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour: