Psalms 10:3
For the wicked man boasts of his heart's desire. And the greedy man renounces, [yea], despises LORD.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 26:30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Deuteronomy 32:19And LORD saw, and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
1 Samuel 23:21And Saul said, Blessed be ye of LORD, for ye have had compassion on me.
Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, [Thou are] my confidence;
Psalms 35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
Psalms 49:11Their inward thought is [that] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling-places to all generations. They call their lands after their own names.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:2-12
The Character of the Wicked; The Character of Persecutors. 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord ? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far… Read the whole commentary →