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Psalms 10:8

For the Lord is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

In Context

7He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup.

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Cross References

Judges 9:25And they stationed an ambush against him at the summit of the mountains. And while they were waiting for his arrival, they committed robberies, taking spoils from those passing by. And this was reported to Abimelech.

1 Samuel 23:23Consider and seek out all his hiding places, in which he may be concealed. And return to me with certainty about the matter, so that I may go with you. But if he would even press himself into the earth, I will search him out, amid all the thousands of Judah.”

Job 24:14The killer of men rises at first light; he executes the destitute and the poor, but, in truth, he is like a thief in the night.

Psalms 94:6Come, let us adore and fall prostrate, and let us weep before the Lord who made us.

Proverbs 6:12An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth;

Jeremiah 22:17Yet truly, your eyes and your heart are toward avarice and the shedding of innocent blood, and toward false accusations and the pursuit of evil deeds.

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 →

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