Psalms 10:9

He lurks like a lion to seize the helpless and drag them off in his net. Predatory evil hunts the weak with ruthless cunning.

Cross-references · 27

• Ps 17:12like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.
• Ps 59:3See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.
• Mic 7:2The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.
• Ps 35:10All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O LORD, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”
• Ps 140:5The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Prov 22:16Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.
• Prov 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
• Amos 5:11–12Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
• Zech 11:3Listen to the wailing of the shepherds, for their glory is in ruins. Listen to the roaring of the young lions, for the thickets of the Jordan are destroyed.
• Amos 3:4Does a lion roar in the forest when he has no prey? Does a young lion growl in his den if he has caught nothing?
• Amos 2:6–7This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.
• Isa 32:7The weapons of the scoundrel are destructive; he hatches plots to destroy the poor with lies, even when the plea of the needy is just.
• Job 5:15–16He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
• Prov 28:15Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.
• Lam 3:10He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
• John 10:12The hired hand is not the shepherd, and the sheep are not his own. When he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf pounces on them and scatters the flock.
• Nah 2:11–12Where is the lions’ lair or the feeding ground of the young lions, where the lion and lioness prowled with their cubs, with nothing to frighten them away?
• Ps 12:5“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”
• Isa 3:15Why do you crush My people and grind the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.
• Hab 3:14With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.
• Ezek 22:29The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice.
• Ps 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
• Hab 1:15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
• Ezek 19:3–6She brought up one of her cubs, and he became a young lion. After learning to tear his prey, he devoured men.
• Jer 5:26For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
• Acts 23:21Do not let them persuade you, because more than forty men are waiting to ambush him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they have killed him; they are ready now, awaiting your consent.”
• Ps 109:31For He stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save him from the condemners of his soul.

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