Psalms 10:3
For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
Catholic Public Domain 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
2I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
4For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done?
Cross References
Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, and I will break apart your false images. You will fall among the ruins of your idols, and my soul will abominate you:
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord saw, and he was stirred to anger. For his own sons and daughters provoked him.
1 Samuel 23:21And Saul said: “You have been blessed by the Lord. For you have grieved for my situation.
Job 31:24If I have considered gold to be my strength, or if I have called purified gold ‘my Trust;’
Psalms 49:11I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
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 →