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Psalms Chapter 10

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Psalms

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In Psalm 10 the author describes a righteous man who is mocked and threatened by his friends, who wish his life to end. The psalmist cries out to God for justice, lamenting the cruelty of the wicked. The chapter stresses the need for divine protection and the hope that God’s righteousness will prevail.

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(1) Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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Psalms 22:1Psalms 46:1Jeremiah 14:8Psalms 13:1Psalms 13:2Psalms 13:3Psalms 27:9Psalms 30:7Psalms 44:24Psalms 88:14Job 13:24Job 23:9

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I Samuel 1:8I Chronicles 21:3Psalms 88:14Genesis 4:6Judges 5:28I Samuel 19:17

(2) The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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Psalms 31:18Psalms 36:11Psalms 59:12Psalms 119:5Psalms 119:69Psalms 119:85Psalms 119:122Psalms 140:5Exodus 9:17Exodus 18:11Isaiah 10:12Isaiah 10:13

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Psalms 10:9

(3) For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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Psalms 35:21Psalms 49:6Psalms 52:1Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Psalms 94:4Exodus 15:9Isaiah 10:7Isaiah 10:8Isaiah 10:9Isaiah 10:10Isaiah 10:11

(4) The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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Psalms 18:27Psalms 101:5Proverbs 6:17Proverbs 21:4Proverbs 30:13Isaiah 2:11Isaiah 3:9Psalms 14:2Psalms 27:8Exodus 5:2Deuteronomy 8:14Job 22:17

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Zephaniah 2:3

(5) His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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Genesis 6:12Proverbs 1:19Proverbs 2:13Proverbs 2:15Isaiah 10:1Hosea 9:9Romans 3:16Psalms 92:5Psalms 92:6Proverbs 15:24Proverbs 24:1Isaiah 5:12

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Nehemiah 12:39Psalms 97:9John 3:31

(6) He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
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Psalms 11:1Psalms 14:1Matthew 24:48Psalms 15:5Psalms 30:6Ecclesiastes 8:11Isaiah 47:7Isaiah 56:12Nahum 1:10I Thessalonians 5:3

(7) His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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Psalms 59:12Psalms 62:4Romans 3:14Psalms 5:9Psalms 7:14Psalms 36:3Psalms 52:4Psalms 55:21Psalms 58:3Psalms 64:3Isaiah 59:4Jeremiah 9:3

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Jeremiah 5:27Job 15:35Ecclesiastes 1:2

(8) 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.
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I Samuel 22:18I Samuel 23:23II Kings 21:16Proverbs 1:11Proverbs 1:12Habakkuk 3:14Luke 8:1Luke 10:1Psalms 17:11Proverbs 6:12Proverbs 6:13Jeremiah 22:17

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I Kings 13:33I Kings 22:43II Kings 12:3II Kings 14:4II Kings 15:4II Kings 15:35

(9) 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.
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Psalms 17:12Psalms 59:3Micah 7:2Acts 23:21Lamentations 3:10Amos 3:4Nahum 2:11Nahum 2:12Zechariah 11:3Jeremiah 5:26Ezekiel 19:3Ezekiel 19:4

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Psalms 130:5Proverbs 7:12Proverbs 23:28Proverbs 23:34Deuteronomy 15:7Deuteronomy 15:11

(10) He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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I Samuel 2:36I Samuel 18:21I Samuel 18:22I Samuel 18:23I Samuel 18:24I Samuel 18:25I Samuel 18:26I Samuel 23:21I Samuel 23:22II Samuel 15:5

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Psalms 35:10Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(11) He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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Psalms 10:6Mark 2:6Luke 7:39Psalms 64:5Psalms 73:11Psalms 94:7Job 22:13Job 22:14Ecclesiastes 8:11Ezekiel 8:12Ezekiel 9:9

(12) Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
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Psalms 3:7Psalms 7:6Psalms 9:19Psalms 94:2Isaiah 26:11Isaiah 33:10Micah 5:9Psalms 9:12Psalms 13:1Psalms 77:9

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Isaiah 49:15

(13) Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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Psalms 74:10Psalms 74:18Numbers 11:20II Samuel 12:9II Samuel 12:10Luke 10:16I Thessalonians 4:8Genesis 9:5Genesis 42:22II Chronicles 24:22Luke 11:50Luke 11:51

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II Kings 8:12Genesis 9:5Exodus 15:26

(14) 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.
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Psalms 35:22Proverbs 15:3Jeremiah 16:17Jeremiah 23:24Hebrews 4:13Habakkuk 1:13Judges 1:7II Kings 9:26II Chronicles 6:23Jeremiah 51:56Joel 3:4Psalms 55:22

(15) Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
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Psalms 3:7Psalms 37:17Job 38:15Ezekiel 30:21Ezekiel 30:22Zechariah 11:17Psalms 7:9II Kings 21:12II Kings 21:13II Kings 21:14II Kings 21:15Jeremiah 2:34

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Jeremiah 44:9Ecclesiastes 8:17Exodus 15:16Hosea 5:15Hosea 10:12Luke 15:8

(16) The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
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Psalms 29:10Psalms 93:1Psalms 145:13Psalms 146:10Isaiah 33:22Jeremiah 10:10Lamentations 5:19Daniel 4:34Daniel 6:26I Timothy 1:17I Timothy 6:15I Timothy 6:16

(17) LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
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Psalms 9:12Psalms 9:18Psalms 37:4Psalms 145:19Proverbs 10:24II Chronicles 33:12II Chronicles 33:13II Chronicles 34:27Proverbs 15:8Matthew 5:3Luke 18:13Luke 18:14

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26Judges 4:8Ruth 4:4I Samuel 1:11I Samuel 24:21

(18) To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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Psalms 10:14Psalms 72:4Psalms 82:3Psalms 94:1Psalms 94:2Psalms 94:3Psalms 94:4Psalms 94:5Psalms 94:6Isaiah 11:4Luke 18:7Luke 18:8

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Judges 2:18Isaiah 1:17Jeremiah 5:28

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