Verse 2

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

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 7:16 : 16 Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
  • Ps 9:15-16 : 15 Sunk have nations in a pit they made, In a net that they hid hath their foot been captured. 16 Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.
  • Ps 31:18 : 18 Let lips of falsehood become dumb, That are speaking against the righteous, Ancient sayings, in pride and contempt.
  • Ps 36:11 : 11 Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.
  • Ps 59:12 : 12 The sin of their mouth `is' a word of their lips, And they are captured in their pride, And from the curse and lying they recount.
  • Ps 119:5 : 5 O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,
  • Ps 119:69 : 69 Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
  • Ps 119:85 : 85 The proud have digged for me pits, That `are' not according to Thy law.
  • Ps 119:122 : 122 Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.
  • Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud hid a snare for me -- and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
  • Isa 10:12-13 : 12 And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes. 13 For he hath said, `By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,
  • Isa 14:13 : 13 And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.
  • Isa 14:16 : 16 Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?
  • Jer 43:2 : 2 that Azariah son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, speak unto Jeremiah, saying, `Falsehood thou art speaking; Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Do not enter Egypt to sojourn there;
  • Exod 9:17 : 17 still thou art exalting thyself against My people -- so as not to send them away;
  • Exod 18:11 : 11 now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'