Psalm 10
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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

boasteth

Psalm 35:21 Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, …

Psalm 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude …

Psalm 52:1 Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of …

Psalm 73:8,9 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they …

Psalm 94:4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers …

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the …

Isaiah 10:7-11 However, he means not so, neither does his heart think so; but it …

Isaiah 37:23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you …

James 4:13,16 Go to now, you that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such …

hearts. Heb. soul's
and blesseth. or, the covetous blesseth himself, he abhorreth the Lord

Psalm 49:11-13,18 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, …

Deuteronomy 29:19 And it come to pass, when he hears the words of this curse, that …

1 Samuel 23:21 And Saul said, Blessed be you of the LORD; for you have compassion on me.

Job 31:24 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are …

Proverbs 23:4 Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Hosea 12:7,8 He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loves to oppress…

Zechariah 11:5-8 Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they …

Luke 12:19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for …

Romans 1:29,32 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, …

2 Timothy 3:2-4 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, …

1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If …

whom

Isaiah 57:17 For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: …

Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and …

Micah 6:10-12 Are there yet the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, …

Habakkuk 2:9 Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he …

Matthew 26:15,16 And said to them, What will you give me, and I will deliver him to …

Luke 12:15 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness…

Luke 16:14,15 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: …

1 Corinthians 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, …

Ephesians 5:5 For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous …

Colossians 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, …

1 Timothy 6:9,10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and …

abhorreth

Psalm 5:6 You shall destroy them that speak leasing: the LORD will abhor the …

Leviticus 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and …

Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking …

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

the pride

Psalm 18:27 For you will save the afflicted people; but will bring down high looks.

Psalm 101:5 Whoever privately slanders his neighbor, him will I cut off: him …

Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 21:4 An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids …

Isaiah 2:11 The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men …

Isaiah 3:9 The show of their countenance does witness against them; and they …

will not

Psalm 14:2 The LORD looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if …

Psalm 27:8 When you said, Seek you my face; my heart said to you, Your face, …

Exodus 5:2 And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to …

Deuteronomy 8:14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, which …

Job 22:17 Which said to God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …

Jeremiah 2:31 O generation, see you the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness …

Daniel 5:22,23 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though …

Zephaniah 2:3 Seek you the LORD, all you meek of the earth, which have worked his …

God. or, all his thoughts
are
There is no God

Psalm 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, …

Psalm 53:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, …

Ephesians 2:12 That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the …

thoughts

Genesis 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth…

Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …

Isaiah 65:2 I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which …

Jeremiah 4:14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. …

Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …

Acts 8:22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps …

Romans 1:21,28 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, …

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

His

Genesis 6:12 And God looked on the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all …

Proverbs 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes …

Proverbs 2:13,15 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness…

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness …

Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: …

Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:

thy judgments

Psalm 92:5,6 O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep…

Proverbs 15:24 The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Proverbs 24:1 Be not you envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in …

Isaiah 26:11 LORD, when your hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall …

Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with …

Isaiah 42:25 Therefore he has poured on him the fury of his anger, and the strength …

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he …

he puffeth

Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …

Judges 9:27,38 And they went out into the fields, and gathered their vineyards, …

2 Samuel 5:6 And the king and his men went to Jerusalem to the Jebusites, the …

1 Kings 20:10,11,13 And Benhadad sent to him, and said, The gods do so to me, and more also…

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

full

Psalm 59:12 For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even …

Psalm 62:4 They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight …

Romans 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

and deceit. Heb. deceits

Psalm 5:9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is …

Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to …

Psalm 52:4 You love all devouring words, O you deceitful tongue.

Psalm 55:21 The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in …

Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as …

Psalm 64:3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot …

Isaiah 59:4 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, …

Jeremiah 9:3,6 And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are …

Romans 3:13 Their throat is an open sepulcher; with their tongues they have used …

under

Job 20:12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

mischief

Psalm 7:14 Behold, he travails with iniquity, and has conceived mischief, and …

Psalm 140:9 As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief …

Job 15:35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit.

Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? …

James 3:6-8 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among …

vanity. or, iniquity

Psalm 12:2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbor: with flattering lips …

Psalm 41:6 And if he come to see me, he speaks vanity: his heart gathers iniquity …

Psalm 144:8,11 Whose mouth speaks vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood…

Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to …

Proverbs 30:8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; …

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

He lieth

Psalm 17:12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young …

Psalm 59:3 For, see, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against …

Micah 7:2 The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright …

Acts 23:21 But do not you yield to them: for there lie in wait for him of them …

secretly. Heb. in the secret places

Lamentations 3:10 He was to me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Amos 3:4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? will a young …

Nahum 2:11,12 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the …

Zechariah 11:3 There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory …

to catch

Jeremiah 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …

Ezekiel 19:3-6 And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and …

Habakkuk 1:15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their …

John 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep …

poor, when

Psalm 12:5 For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now …

Psalm 35:10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like to you, which deliver the …

Psalm 37:14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to …

Psalm 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from …

Job 5:15,16 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from …

Proverbs 14:31 He that oppresses the poor reproaches his Maker: but he that honors …

Proverbs 22:16 He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives …

Proverbs 28:15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over …

Isaiah 3:15 What mean you that you beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces …

Isaiah 32:7 The instruments also of the churl are evil: he devises wicked devices …

Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, …

Amos 2:6,7 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, …

Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take …

Habakkuk 3:14 You did strike through with his staves the head of his villages: …

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

Thou hast

Psalm 35:22 This you have seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.

Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Jeremiah 16:17 For my eyes are on all their ways: they are not hid from my face, …

Jeremiah 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? said …

Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…

for thou

Habakkuk 1:13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: …

to requite

Judges 1:7 And Adonibezek said, Three score and ten kings, having their thumbs …

2 Kings 9:26 Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of …

2 Chronicles 6:23 Then hear you from heaven, and do, and judge your servants, by requiting …

Jeremiah 51:56 Because the spoiler is come on her, even on Babylon, and her mighty …

Joel 3:4 Yes, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all …

the poor

Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the LORD, and he shall sustain you: he shall …

2 Timothy 1:12 For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am …

1 Peter 4:19 Why let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the …

1 Peter 5:7 Casting all your care on him; for he cares for you.

committeth. Heb. leaveth

Isaiah 10:3 And what will you do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation …

Jeremiah 49:11 Leave your fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let …

helper

Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in …

Psalm 146:9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and …

Deuteronomy 10:18 He does execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loves …

Hosea 14:3 Asshur shall not save us; we will not ride on horses: neither will …

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

Lord

Psalm 9:12,18 When he makes inquisition for blood, he remembers them: he forgets …

Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself also in the LORD: and he shall give you the desires …

Psalm 145:19 He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear …

Proverbs 10:24 The fear of the wicked, it shall come on him: but the desire of the …

humble

2 Chronicles 33:12,13 And when he was in affliction, he sought the LORD his God, and humbled …

2 Chronicles 34:27 Because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before …

Proverbs 15:8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the …

Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Luke 18:13,14 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as …

James 4:6,10 But he gives more grace. Why he said, God resists the proud, but …

1 Peter 5:5 Likewise, you younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of …

thou wilt prepare. or, establish

Psalm 112:7,8 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting …

1 Chronicles 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers…

2 Chronicles 29:36 And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared …

2 Chronicles 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the …

Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, …

Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps our infirmities: for we know not what …

Ephesians 2:18 For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Ephesians 3:12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

James 1:16,17 Do not err, my beloved brothers…

cause

Psalm 102:17 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; …

Acts 4:24-31 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with …

Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing …

1 Peter 3:12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are …

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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