Psalms 10:2

Psalms chapter 10 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

King James Version · 1611

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

American Standard Version · 1901

In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

v.1Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

v.2This passage

v.3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
Psalms 31:18
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Psalms 59:12
Forthe 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 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Jeremiah 43:2
then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.