Psalms 10:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 10:2

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor,.... The "poor" is the good and gracious man, who is commonly poor in this world's things, and is sensibly poor in spirit, or sensible of his spiritual poverty; or he is so called because "afflicted", as the word signifies; and he is afflicted because he is poor: these two characters generally go together.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Tyranny, both in state and church, owes its origin to pride. The psalmist, having begun this description, presently inserts a short prayer, a prayer in a parenthesis, which is an advantage and no prejudice to the sense: Let them be taken, as proud people often are, in the devices that they have imagined,

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (1869)

The second verse contains the formal indictment against the wicked: "The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor." The accusation divides itself into two distinct charges, —pride and tyranny; the one the root and cause of the other. The second sentence is the humble petition of the oppressed: "Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined." The prayer is reasonable, just, and natural. Even our enemies themselves being judges, it is but right that men should be done by as they wished to do to others.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּגַאֲוַ֣ת	be.ga.'a.Vat	in [the] pride of	H1346 →
רָ֭שָׁע	Ra.sho'	[the] wicked	H7563 →
יִדְלַ֣ק	yid.Lak	he hotly pursues	H1814 →
עָנִ֑י	'a.Ni	[the] afflicted	H6041 →
יִתָּפְשׂ֓וּ׀	yi.ta.fe.Su	they are caught	H8610 →
בִּמְזִמּ֖וֹת	bim.zi.Mot	by schemes	H4209 →
ז֣וּ	zu	which	H2098 →
חָשָֽׁבוּ׃	cha.Sha.vu	they have planned	H2803 →

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The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 7:16
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
leads to
- Esther 9:25
  But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his…
- Psalms 37:12–13
  The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
Through
Psalms 31:18
May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
leads to
- Psalms 94:4
  They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
- Jude 1:15
  to execute judgment on everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of every ungodly act of wickedness and every harsh word spoken against Him by ungodly sinners.”
- Isaiah 54:17
  No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their vindication is from Me,” declares the…
- 1 Samuel 2:3
  Do not boast so proudly, or let arrogance come from your mouth, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by Him actions are weighed.
Through
Psalms 59:12
By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
leads to
- Proverbs 12:13
  An evil man is trapped by his rebellious speech, but a righteous man escapes from trouble.
Through
Psalms 36:11
Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
leads to
- Psalms 16:8
  I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms