◄ Psalm 10:8 {9:29} ►
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Good News Translation
They hide themselves in the villages, waiting to murder innocent people. They spy on their helpless victims;

New Revised Standard Version
They sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

Contemporary English Version
They hide outside villages, waiting to strike and murder some innocent victim.

New American Bible
They wait in ambush near towns; their eyes watch for the helpless to murder the innocent in secret.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.

sitteth

1 Samuel 22:18 And the king said to Doeg: Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg, the Edomite, turned, and fell upon the priests, and slew in that day eighty-five men that wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:23 Consider, and see all his lurking holes, wherein he is hid, and return to me with the certainty of the thing, that I may go with you. And if he should even go down into the earth to hide himself, I will search him out in all the thousands of Juda.

2 Kings 21:16 Moreover, Manasses shed also very much innocent blood, till he filled Jerusalem up to the mouth: besides his sins, wherewith he made Juda to sin, to do evil before the Lord.

Proverbs 1:11,12 Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit. . . .

Habakkuk 3:14 Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.

Luke 8:1 And it came to pass afterwards he travelled through the cities and towns, preaching and evangelizing the kingdom of God: and the twelve with him:

Luke 10:1 And after these things, the Lord appointed also other seventy-two. And he sent them two and two before his face into every city and place whither he himself was to come.

his eyes

Psalm 17:11 They have cast me forth, and now they have surrounded me: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth.

Proverbs 6:12,13 He winketh with the eyes, presseth with the foot, speaketh with the finger. . . .

Jeremiah 22:17 But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness, and upon shedding innocent blood, and upon oppression, and running after evil works.

are privily set.

Context
The Perils of the Pilgrim
…7His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow. 8He sits in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.9His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:21
You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.

Job 24:14
The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief.

Psalm 11:2
In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

Psalm 37:32
The wicked watcheth the just man, and seeketh to put him to death,

Psalm 64:4
To shoot in secret the undefiled.

Psalm 72:12
For he shall deliver the poor from the mighty: and the needy that had no helper.

Psalm 94:6
They have slain the widow and the stranger: and they have murdered the fatherless.

Proverbs 1:11
Let us swallow him up alive like hell, and whole as one that goeth down into the pit.

Habakkuk 3:14
Thou hast cursed his sceptres, the head of his warriors, them that came out as a whirlwind to scatter me. Their joy was like that of him that devoureth the poor man in secret.

Psalm 10:7
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