Psalms 10:2 KJV
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10:2, King James Version
In context
1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
Cross-references
- Psalms 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- Psalms 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
- Psalms 7:16 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
- Proverbs 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
- Psalms 31:18 Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.