Psalms 10:8

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.

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  • Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.
  • Luke 8:1 : 1 Jesus’ Ministry and the Help of Women Some time afterward he went on through towns and villages, preaching and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom of God. The twelve were with him,
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 The Mission of the Seventy-Two After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them on ahead of him two by two into every town and place where he himself was about to go.
  • 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 Then the king said to Doeg,“You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 Locate precisely all the places where he hides and return to me with dependable information. Then I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will find him among all the thousands of Judah.”
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the resident foreigner, and they murder the fatherless.
  • Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously. 12 We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things; 13 he winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, and points with his fingers;
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

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  • Ps 10:9-11
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    89%

    9He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

    10His victims are crushed and beaten down; they are trapped in his sturdy nets.

    11He says to himself,“God overlooks it; he does not pay attention; he never notices.”

  • Ps 10:7
    78%

    7His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

  • Prov 1:18
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    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    77%

    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

    12He is like a lion that wants to tear its prey to bits, like a young lion crouching in hidden places.

  • Ps 37:32
    76%

    32Evil men set an ambush for the godly and try to kill them.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • Job 24:14-15
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    14Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

    15And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking,‘No eye can see me,’ and covers his face with a mask.

  • Ps 11:2
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    2For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

  • Lam 3:10
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    10ד(Dalet) To me he is like a bear lying in ambush, like a hidden lion stalking its prey.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8For he has been thrown into a net by his feet and he wanders into a mesh.

    9A trap seizes him by the heel; a snare grips him.

    10A rope is hidden for him on the ground and a trap for him lies on the path.

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Ps 37:14
    74%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4in order to shoot down the innocent in secluded places. They shoot at him suddenly and are unafraid of retaliation.

    5They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”

  • Ps 37:12
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    12Evil men plot against the godly and viciously attack them.

  • Jer 5:26
    73%

    26“Indeed, there are wicked scoundrels among my people. They lie in wait like bird catchers hiding in ambush. They set deadly traps to catch people.

  • Prov 24:15
    73%

    15Do not lie in wait like the wicked against the place where the righteous live; do not assault his home.

  • Ps 35:8
    72%

    8Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He plans ways to sin while he lies in bed; he is committed to a sinful lifestyle; he does not reject what is evil.

  • Isa 32:7
    72%

    7A deceiver’s methods are evil; he dreams up evil plans to ruin the poor with lies, even when the needy are in the right.

  • Prov 16:30
    71%

    30The one who winks his eyes devises perverse things, and one who compresses his lips has accomplished evil.

  • Job 38:40
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    40when they crouch in their dens, when they wait in ambush in the thicket?

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

  • Isa 10:2
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    2to keep the poor from getting fair treatment, and to deprive the oppressed among my people of justice, so they can steal what widows own, and loot what belongs to orphans.

  • Ps 109:16
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    16For he never bothered to show kindness; he harassed the oppressed and needy, and killed the disheartened.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let cries of terror be heard in their houses when you send bands of raiders unexpectedly to plunder them. For they have virtually dug a pit to capture me and have hidden traps for me to step into.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15Like a roaring lion or a roving bear, so is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Ps 140:11
    70%

    11A slanderer will not endure on the earth; calamity will hunt down a violent man and strike him down.

  • Jer 9:8
    70%

    8Their tongues are like deadly arrows. They are always telling lies. Friendly words for their neighbors come from their mouths. But their minds are thinking up ways to trap them.

  • Job 33:10
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    10Yet God finds occasions with me; he regards me as his enemy!

  • Prov 21:10
    70%

    10The appetite of the wicked has desired evil; his neighbor is shown no favor in his eyes.

  • Ps 94:21
    70%

    21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush to shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Ps 7:13-14
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    13He has prepared deadly weapons to use against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

    14See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies–

  • Ps 10:14
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    14You have taken notice, for you always see one who inflicts pain and suffering. The unfortunate victim entrusts his cause to you; you deliver the fatherless.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For look, they wait to ambush me; powerful men stalk me, but not because I have rebelled or sinned, O LORD.

  • Ps 64:2
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    2Hide me from the plots of evil men, from the crowd of evildoers.

  • Job 15:28
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Prov 6:17
    70%

    17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Isa 59:7
    70%

    7They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

  • Hab 3:14
    69%

    14You pierce the heads of his warriors with a spear. They storm forward to scatter us; they shout with joy as if they were plundering the poor with no opposition.

  • Jer 22:17
    69%

    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.