Psalms 10:8

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.

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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{literally, "before his face"} into every city and place, where he was about to come.
  • 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 The king said to Doeg, Turn you, and fall on the priests. Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell on the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons 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 you again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall happen, if he be 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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  • Ps 10:9-11
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    89%

    9He 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.

    10The helpless are crushed, they collapse, They fall under his strength.

    11He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it."

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

  • Prov 1:18
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    18But these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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

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

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked watches the righteous, And seeks to kill him.

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

  • Job 24:14-15
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    14The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

    15The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

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

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

  • Job 18:8-10
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    74%

    8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he wanders into its mesh.

    9A snare shall take him by the heel; A trap shall lay hold on him.

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

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; Let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Don't lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don't destroy his resting-place:

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

  • Ps 36:4
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    4He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good; He doesn't abhor evil.

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

  • Prov 16:30
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    30One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, One who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

  • Job 38:40
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    40When they crouch in their dens, And lie in wait in the thicket?

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

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

  • Ps 109:16
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    16Because he didn't remember to show kindness, But persecuted the poor and needy man, The broken in heart, to kill them.

  • Jer 18:22
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    22Let 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.

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

  • Ps 140:11
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    11An evil speaker won't be established in the earth. Evil will hunt the violent man to overthrow him.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lays wait for him.

  • Job 33:10
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    10Behold, he finds occasions against me, He counts me for his enemy:

  • Prov 21:10
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    10The soul of the wicked desires evil; His neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2The 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.

    3Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; And the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • Ps 7:13-14
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    13He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.

    14Behold, he travails with iniquity; Yes, he has conceived mischief, And brought forth falsehood.

  • Ps 10:14
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    14But you do see trouble and grief; You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

  • Ps 59:3
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    3For, 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 64:2
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    2Hide me from the conspiracy of the wicked, From the noisy crowd of the ones doing evil;

  • Job 15:28
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    28He has lived in desolate cities, In houses which no one inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps.

  • Prov 6:17
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    17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood;

  • Isa 59:7
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    7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Hab 3:14
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    14You 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.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But 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.