Psalm 10:9

Free Bible Version

They lie in ambush like a lion ready to attack, ready to leap out from their hiding place to seize their victim. They capture the helpless, throwing a net over them.

Cross References

Job 38:40

as they crouch down in their dens and lie in wait in the bushes?

Psalm 109:31

For he takes a stand to defend the needy, to save them from those who condemn them.

Psalm 12:5

“Because of the violence the helpless have suffered, and because of the groans of the poor, I will rise up to defend them,” says the Lord. “I will give them the protection they have been longing for.”

Psalm 140:5

Proud people have hidden a trap for me—they have strung out a net on the path, they have set snares to catch me. Selah.

Psalm 17:12

They are like lions, longing to tear their prey apart; like fierce lions crouching in ambush.

Psalm 35:10

Every part of me will say, Who can compare to you, Lord? You rescue the weak from the strong; the poor and needy from robbers.

Psalm 37:14

The wicked draw their swords, and bend their bows to destroy the poor and needy, to kill those who live right.

Psalm 59:3

See how they're lying in wait to kill me! Powerful men are gathered against me, Lord, even though I have not sinned or done anything wrong.

Proverbs 14:31

Anyone who oppresses the poor insults their Maker, but anyone who is kind to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 22:16

If you oppress the poor to make yourself rich, or if you're generous to the rich, you'll end up poor yourself.

Proverbs 28:15

A wicked ruler lording it over poor people is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.

Isaiah 3:15

Why have you crushed my people? Why have you ground the faces of the poor into the dirt? the Lord Almighty demands to know.

Isaiah 32:7

Cheats use evil methods; they devise schemes to ruin the poor with lies, even when right is on the side of the poor.

Jeremiah 5:26

For there are wicked men among my people. They're like bird-trappers, secretly watching and waiting to catch people in their snare.

Lamentations 3:10

He is a bear that lies in wait for me, a lion in hiding ready to attack,

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of this country are extortioners and robbers. They mistreat the poor and those in need and exploit the foreigners, treating them totally unfairly.

Amos 3:4

Does a lion roar in the forest before finding its prey? Does a young lion growl from its den if it has caught nothing?

Micah 7:2

All the good people in the country are gone, there's no one who does right left anywhere. Everyone is looking to murder others; they try to trap even their own brothers.

Habakkuk 1:15

They drag everyone up with hooks, they pull them out with nets, catching them in dragnets. Then they happily celebrate.

Habakkuk 3:14

With his own arrows you pierced the heads of his warriors, those who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating like those who secretly abuse the poor.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen to the howls of the shepherds, for their pastureland is destroyed. Listen to the roars of the young lions, for their Jordan habitat is ruined.

John 10:12

The man paid to look after the sheep is not the shepherd and he runs away when he sees the wolf coming. He abandons the sheep because they're not his, and the wolf attacks and scatters the flock

Acts 23:21

“Please don't listen to them, because they have planned to ambush him with more than forty men who have taken an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They're ready right now, waiting for you to agree to the request.”