Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD detests.
Updated King James 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 images, and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall detest you.
Deuteronomy 32:19And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
1 Samuel 23:21And Saul said, Blessed be all of you of the LORD; for all of you have compassion on me.
Job 31:24If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
Psalms 35:21Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye has seen it.
Psalms 49:11Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and 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 →