Psalms 10:3

For the wicked person boasts of his deepest desires; 1 he blesses the greedy and insults Yahweh. 1

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In The King James Version

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

In Context

2Because of their arrogance, wicked people chase the oppressed; 1 but please let the wicked be trapped by their own schemes that they have devised. 1

4The wicked man has a raised face; he does not seek God. 1 He never thinks about God because he does not care at all about him. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and throw your corpses on the corpses of your idols, and I myself will abhor you.

Deuteronomy 32:19Yahweh saw this and he rejected them, 1 because his sons and his daughters provoked him so. 1

1 Samuel 23:21Saul said, “May you be blessed by Yahweh. For you have had compassion on me.

Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, 1 and if I have said to fine gold, 'You are what I am confident in'; 1

Psalms 35:21They open their mouths wide against me; 1 they said, “Aha, Aha, our eyes have seen it.” 1

Psalms 49:11Their inner thought is that their families will continue forever, 1 and the places where they live, to all generations; 1 they call their lands after their own names. 1

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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