Psalms 10:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

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Referenced Verses

  • Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation `is' as to consume the poor in secret.
  • Luke 8:1 : 1 And it came to pass thereafter, that he was going through every city and village, preaching and proclaiming good news of the reign of God, and the twelve `are' with him,
  • Luke 10:1 : 1 And after these things, the Lord did appoint also other seventy, and sent them by twos before his face, to every city and place whither he himself was about to come,
  • 1 Sam 22:18 : 18 And the king saith to Doeg, `Turn round thou, and come against the priests;' and Doeg the Edomite turneth round, and cometh himself against the priests, and putteth to death in that day eighty and five men bearing a linen ephod,
  • 1 Sam 23:23 : 23 And see and know of all the hiding-places where he hideth himself, and ye have turned back unto me prepared, and I have gone with you, and it hath been, if he is in the land, that I have searched him out through all the thousands of Judah.'
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 And also, innocent blood hath Manasseh shed very much, till that he hath filled Jerusalem -- mouth to mouth; apart from his sin that he hath caused Judah to sin, to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah.
  • Ps 17:11 : 11 `Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.
  • Ps 94:6 : 6 Widow and sojourner they slay, And fatherless ones they murder.
  • Prov 1:11-12 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit,
  • Prov 6:12-13 : 12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking `with' perverseness of mouth, 13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    89%

    9He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

    10He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

    11He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

  • Ps 10:7
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    7Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,

  • Prov 1:18
    77%

    18And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

  • Ps 17:11-12
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    77%

    11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

    12His likeness as a lion desirous to tear, As a young lion dwelling in secret places.

  • Ps 37:32
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    32The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.

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    2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

  • Job 24:14-15
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    14At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

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  • Ps 11:2
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    2For lo, the wicked tread a bow, They have prepared their arrow on the string, To shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

  • Lam 3:10
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    10A bear lying in wait He `is' to me, A lion in secret hiding-places.

  • Job 18:8-10
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    74%

    8For he is sent into a net by his own feet, And on a snare he doth walk habitually.

    9Seize on the heel doth a gin, Prevail over him do the designing.

    10Hidden in the earth is his cord, And his trap on the path.

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

  • Ps 37:14
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    14A sword have the wicked opened, And they have trodden their bow, To cause to fall the poor and needy, To slaughter the upright of the way.

  • Ps 64:4-5
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    4To shoot in secret places the perfect, Suddenly they shoot him, and fear not.

    5They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'

  • Ps 37:12
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    12The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

  • Jer 5:26
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    26For the wicked have been found among My people. It looketh about the covering of snares, They have set up a trap -- men they capture.

  • Prov 24:15
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    15Lay not wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting-place.

  • Ps 35:8
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    8Meet him doth desolation -- he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.

  • Ps 36:4
    72%

    4Iniquity he deviseth on his bed, He stationeth himself on a way not good, Evil he doth not refuse.'

  • Isa 32:7
    72%

    7And the miser -- his instruments `are' evil, He hath counselled wicked devices, To corrupt the poor with lying sayings, Even when the needy speaketh justly.

  • Prov 16:30
    71%

    30Consulting his eyes to devise froward things, Moving his lips he hath accomplished evil.

  • Job 38:40
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    40When they bow down in dens -- Abide in a thicket for a covert?

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

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    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

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    16Because that he hath not remembered to do kindness, And pursueth the poor man and needy, And the smitten of heart -- to slay,

  • Jer 18:22
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    22A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

  • Prov 28:15
    70%

    15A growling lion, and a ranging bear, `Is' the wicked ruler over a poor people.

  • Ps 140:11
    70%

    11A talkative man is not established in the earth, One of violence -- evil hunteth to overflowing.

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    8A slaughtering arrow `is' their tongue, Deceit it hath spoken in its mouth, Peace with its neighbour it speaketh, And in its heart it layeth its ambush,

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    10Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,

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    70%

    10The soul of the wicked hath desired evil, Not gracious in his eyes is his neighbour.

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    21They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

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    70%

    2Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

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    13Yea, for him He hath prepared Instruments of death, His arrows for burning pursuers He maketh.

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    70%

    14Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

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    3For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah.

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    2Hidest me from the secret counsel of evil doers, From the tumult of workers of iniquity.

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    17Eyes high -- tongues false -- And hands shedding innocent blood --

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    14Thou hast pierced with his staves the head of his leaders, They are tempestuous to scatter me, Their exultation `is' as to consume the poor in secret.

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    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.