Psalms 10:8
He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
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- Hab 3:14 : 14 You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.
- Luke 8:1 : 1 It happened soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good news of the Kingdom of God. With him were the twelve,
- Luke 10:1 : 1 Now after these things, the Lord also appointed seventy others, and sent them two by two ahead of him into every city and place, where he was about to come.
- 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 The king said to Doeg, "Turn and attack the priests!" Doeg the Edomite turned, and he attacked the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five people who 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 happen, 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 innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- Ps 17:11 : 11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.
- Ps 94:6 : 6 They kill the widow and the alien, and murder the fatherless.
- Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; 12 let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth; 13 who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;
- Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
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9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.
10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
11 He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.
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2 to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
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2 Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, from the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;
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17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
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17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.