Psalms 10:8
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.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 10 connects to 10 cross-references. A lament — probably paired with Psalm 9 as an acrostic completion — crying out at God's apparent absence while the wicked prosper and oppress the poor. The psalmist describes the arrogance of the wicked who think God will not …
Other Translations
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 helpless.
He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
Cross References
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he …
See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me …
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin …
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without …
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for …