Psalm 10:2 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

² The wicked in his loftiness doth persecute the poor: In these devices they have fram'd let them be taken sure.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² The wicked in pride and arrogance hotly pursue and persecute the poor; let them be taken in the schemes which they have devised.

American Standard Version (1901)

² In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Common English Bible

² Meanwhile, the wicked are proudly in hot pursuit of those who suffer. Let them get caught in the very same schemes they’ve thought up!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, "Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul, Get thee away from hence to the mountain like a sparrow?

Psalm 10:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:16

Because he mercy minded not, but persecuted still The poor and needy, that he might the broken-hearted kill.

Psalm 119:122

For good unto thy servant, Lord, thy servant's surety be: From the oppression of the proud do thou deliver me.

Psalm 119:5

O that thy statutes to observe thou would'st my ways direct!

Psalm 119:69

The men that are puff 'd up with pride against me forg'd a lie; Yet thy commandements observe with my whole heart will I.

Psalm 119:85

The proud have digged pits for me, which is against thy laws.

Psalm 140:5

The proud for me a snare have hid, and cords; yea, they a net Have by the way-side for me spread; they gins for me have set.

Psalm 31:18

To silence put the lying lips, that grievous things do say, And hard reports, in pride and scorn, on righteous men do lay.

Psalm 36:11

Let not the foot of cruel pride come, and against me stand; And let me not removed be, Lord, by the wicked's hand.

Psalm 59:12

For their mouth's sin, and for the words that from their lips do fly, Let them be taken in their pride; because they curse and lie.

Psalm 7:16

Upon his own head his mischief shall be returned home; His vi'lent dealing also down on his own pate shall come.