Psalm 10:9

New American Bible - revised edition

They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net.

Cross References

Job 38:40

While they crouch in their dens, or lie in ambush in the thicket?

Psalm 109:31

For he stands at the right hand of the poor to save him from those who pass judgment on him.

Psalm 12:5

Those who say, “By our tongues we prevail; when our lips speak, who can lord it over us?”

Psalm 140:5

Keep me, Lord, from the clutches of the wicked; preserve me from the violent, who plot to trip me up.

Psalm 17:12

Like lions eager for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 35:10

My very bones shall say, “O Lord, who is like you, Who rescue the afflicted from the powerful, the afflicted and needy from the despoiler?”

Psalm 37:14

The wicked unsheath their swords; they string their bows To fell the poor and oppressed, to slaughter those whose way is upright.

Psalm 59:3

Deliver me from evildoers; from the bloodthirsty save me.

Proverbs 14:31

Those who oppress the poor revile their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor for enrichment, giving to the rich: both are sheer loss.

Proverbs 28:15

A roaring lion or a ravenous bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 3:15

What do you mean by crushing my people, and grinding down the faces of the poor? says the Lord, the God of hosts.

Isaiah 32:7

The deceits of the deceiver are evil, he plans devious schemes: To ruin the poor with lies, and the needy when they plead their case.

Jeremiah 5:26

For criminals lurk among my people; like fowlers they set traps, but it is human beings they catch.

Lamentations 3:10

He has been a bear lying in wait for me, a lion in hiding!

Ezekiel 22:29

The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they wrong the poor and the needy, and oppress the resident alien without justice.

Amos 3:4

Does a lion roar in the forest when it has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from its den unless it has seized something?

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Habakkuk 1:15

He brings them all up with a hook, and hauls them away with his net; He gathers them in his fishing net, and then rejoices and exults.

Habakkuk 3:14

You pierced his head with your shafts; his princes you scattered with your stormwind, as food for the poor in unknown places.

Zechariah 11:3

Listen! the wailing of shepherds, their glory has been destroyed. Listen! the roaring of young lions, the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed. The Shepherd Narrative.

John 10:12

A hired man, who is not a shepherd and whose sheep are not his own, sees a wolf coming and leaves the sheep and runs away, and the wolf catches and scatters them.

Acts 23:21

but do not believe them. More than forty of them are lying in wait for him; they have bound themselves by oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him. They are now ready and only wait for your consent.”