Psalm 10:2 - Tree of Life Version

² In pride the wicked hotly hunts the poor. Let them be caught in the plots they have planned.

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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."

Psalm 10:2 Cross References

Psalm 109:16

For he never remembered to show mercy. But he persecuted a poor and needy man, crushed in spirit, to put him to death.

Psalm 119:122

Guarantee Your servant’s well-being. Do not let arrogant ones oppress me.

Psalm 119:5

Oh that my ways were steadfast to observe Your decrees!

Psalm 119:69

Though the proud smeared a lie on me, with all my heart I keep Your precepts.

Psalm 119:85

The proud have dug pits for me— that is not in accord with Your Torah!

Psalm 140:5

Keep me safe, Adonai, from the clutches of the wicked. Protect me from the man of violence who planned to push me off my feet.

Psalm 31:18

Adonai, let me not be ashamed, for I have called upon You. Let the wicked be ashamed— let them be silent in Sheol.

Psalm 36:11

Continue Your lovingkindness to those who know You, and Your justice to the upright in heart.

Psalm 59:12

Do not slay them, lest my people forget. With Your power shake them and bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Psalm 7:16

He digs a pit, scrapes it out, and then falls into the hole he has made.

Exodus 18:11

Now I know that Adonai is greater than all gods, since they had acted arrogantly against them.”

Exodus 9:17

Yet still you exalt yourself over My people, by not letting them go.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of a wicked man will ensnare him. The cords of his sin will hold him down.

Isaiah 14:13

You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north.

Isaiah 14:16

Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,

Jeremiah 43:2

then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the insolent men responded, saying to Jeremiah: “You are telling a lie! Adonai our God has not sent you to say. ‘You must not go to Egypt to sojourn there.’