Psalm 10:8 - Revised Version 1885

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: In the covert places doth he murder the innocent: His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he slays the innocent; he watches stealthily for the poor (the helpless and unfortunate).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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 helpless.

Common English Bible

⁸ They wait in a place perfect for ambush; from their hiding places they kill innocent people; their eyes spot those who are helpless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ For the Lord is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity.

Psalm 10:8 Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD,

Job 24:14

The murderer riseth with the light, he killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

Psalm 17:11

They have now compassed us in our steps: They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger, And murder the fatherless.

Proverbs 24:15

Lay not wait, O wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous; Spoil not his resting place:

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me: Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

Luke 10:1

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.

Luke 8:1

And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve,

Judges 9:25

And the men of Shechem set liers in wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them: and it was told Abimelech.

1 Samuel 22:18

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:23

See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.