Psalms 10:13
Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
In Context
12Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Cross References
Genesis 9:5And only your blood for your lives do I require; from the hand of every living thing I require it, and from the hand of man, from the hand of every man’s brother I require the life of man;
Numbers 11:20[but] even to a month of days, until it comes out from your nostrils, and it has become an abomination to you, because that you have loathed YHWH, who [is] in your midst, and weep before Him, saying, Why is this [that] we have come out of Egypt!”
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of YHWH, to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriah the Hittite by the sword, and you have taken his wife for a wife for yourself, and you have slain him by the sword of the sons of Ammon.
Job 24:12Men groan because of enmity, || And the soul of pierced ones cries, || And God does not give praise.
Psalms 74:10Until when, O God, does an adversary reproach? Does an enemy despise Your Name forever?
Luke 10:16He who is hearing you, hears Me; and he who is putting you away, puts Me away; and he who is putting Me away, puts away Him who sent Me.”
Matthew Henry on Psalms 10:13-18
Prayer against Persecutors. 12 Arise, O Lord ; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. 16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are… Read the whole commentary →