Psalms 5:10

David asks God to hold the wicked guilty and let their own schemes bring them down, since they have rebelled against God. Their offense is ultimately against the Lord Himself.

Cross-references · 40

• Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
• 2 Sam 17:14And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel. For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
• Ps 140:9–10As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
• 1 Cor 3:19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
• 2 Sam 17:23And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
• 2 Sam 15:31And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
• Ps 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
• Ps 109:6–20Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
• Ps 35:26Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
• Ps 144:6–7Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
• Ps 59:12–13For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
• Ps 35:1–8Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.
• Ps 55:15Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
• Ps 68:1–2Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
• Hos 9:7The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
• Lam 1:5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
• 2 Chr 25:16And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him, Art thou made of the king’s counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbare, and said, I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.
• Ps 9:15–16The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Job 5:12–14He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
• Ps 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
• Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
• Ps 79:12And render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.
• Esth 7:10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
• Ps 64:6–8They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
• Ps 137:7–9Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
• 1 Sam 25:29Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.
• Ps 107:11Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
• Ps 66:7He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
• Isa 1:20But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
• Ps 7:9–15Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
• Ps 69:22–25Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
• 1 Sam 25:39And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the LORD, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.
• Isa 1:2Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Dan 9:5We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:
• Ps 21:8–10Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
• Ps 83:9–18Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
• Ps 28:3–4Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Ps 17:13Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword:

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