Psalms 10:9

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Ps 59:3 : 3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
  • Ps 17:12 : 12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
  • Mic 7:2 : 2 The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.
  • Nah 2:11-12 : 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid? 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
  • Hab 1:15 : 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.
  • 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.
  • Zech 11:3 : 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.
  • John 10:12 : 12 He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.
  • Acts 23:21 : 21 Therefore don't yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you."
  • Ps 35:10 : 10 All my bones shall say, "Yahweh, 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 robs him?"
  • Ps 37:14 : 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.
  • Job 5:15-16 : 15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
  • Ps 12:5 : 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says Yahweh; "I will set him in safety from those who malign him."
  • Ps 109:31 : 31 For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul. A Psalm by David.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
  • Prov 14:31 : 31 He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
  • Prov 22:16 : 16 Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
  • Prov 28:15 : 15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.
  • Isa 3:15 : 15 What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?" says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
  • Isa 32:7 : 7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
  • Jer 5:26 : 26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.
  • Lam 3:10 : 10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
  • Ezek 19:3-6 : 3 She brought up one of her cubs: he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men. 4 The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks 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 He went up and down among the lions; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
  • Ezek 22:29 : 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery; yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.
  • Amos 2:6-7 : 6 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
  • Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Forasmuch therefore as you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine. 12 For I know how many your offenses, and how great are your sins-- you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn aside the needy in the courts.

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  • Ps 10:7-8
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    7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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

  • Ps 10:10
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    10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

    12 He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

    9 A snare will take him by the heel. A trap will catch him.

    10 A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

  • Lam 3:10-11
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    10 He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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

  • Prov 1:17-18
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    17 For in vain is the net spread in the sight of any bird:

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Jer 5:26-27
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    26 For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

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

  • Job 38:39-40
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    39 "Can you hunt the prey for the lioness, or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

    40 when they crouch in their dens, and lie in wait in the thicket?

  • Ps 35:7-8
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    76%

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

    8 Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Prov 28:15
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    15 As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

  • Ps 37:32
    74%

    32 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

  • Nah 2:12
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    12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

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

  • Ps 37:14
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    14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • Jer 25:38
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    38 He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land is become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppressing [sword], and because of his fierce anger.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Isa 5:29
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    29 Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

  • Job 24:14
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    14 The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

  • Ezek 19:8
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    8 Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.

  • Prov 1:11-12
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    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.

  • Job 22:10
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    10 Therefore snares are around you. Sudden fear troubles you,

  • Ps 22:13
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    13 They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4 to shoot innocent men from ambushes. They shoot at him suddenly and fearlessly.

    5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

  • Ps 141:9-10
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    72%

    9 Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

    10 Let the wicked fall together into their own nets, while I pass by. A contemplation by David, when he was in the cave. A Prayer.

  • Isa 10:2
    72%

    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!

  • Ps 11:2
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    2 For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

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

  • Ps 37:12
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    12 The wicked plots against the just, and gnashes at him with his teeth.

  • Jer 18:22
    72%

    22 Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you shall bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.

  • Hos 13:7
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    7 Therefore I am like a lion to them. Like a leopard, I will lurk by the path.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • Isa 32:7
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    7 The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked devices to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

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

  • Ps 59:3
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    3 For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

  • Ps 109:11
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    11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor.

  • Num 23:24
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    24 Behold, the people rises up as a lioness, As a lion he lifts himself up. He shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain."

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.