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 grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
• 2 Sam 17:14Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For Yahweh had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that Yahweh might bring evil on Absalom.
• Ps 140:9–10As for the head of those who surround me, 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 has taken the wise in their craftiness.”
• Ps 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.
• 2 Sam 17:23When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey, arose, and went home, to his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the tomb of his father.
• 2 Sam 15:31Someone told David, saying, “Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom.” David said, “Yahweh, please turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.”
• Ps 71:13Let my accusers be disappointed and consumed. Let them be covered with disgrace and scorn who want to harm me.
• Ps 109:6–20Set a wicked man over him. Let an adversary stand at his right hand.
• Ps 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
• Rom 3:19–20Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.
• Ps 144:6–7Throw out lightning, and scatter them. Send out your arrows, and rout them.
• Ps 59:12–13For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
• Ps 35:1–8By David. Contend, Yahweh, with those who contend with me. Fight against those who fight against me.
• Ps 55:15Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is among them, in their dwelling.
• Ps 68:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. A song. Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.
• Hos 9:7The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.
• Lam 1:5Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
• 2 Chr 25:16As he talked with him, the king said to him, “Have we made you one of the king’s counselors? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” Then the prophet stopped, and said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this, and have not listened to my counsel.”
• Ps 9:15–16The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
• Job 5:12–14He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
• Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
• Deut 2:30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.
• Ps 79:12Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, 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 plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
• Ps 137:7–9Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”
• 1 Sam 25:29Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord will be bound in the bundle of life with Yahweh your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
• Ps 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.
• Ps 66:7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him. Selah.
• Isa 1:20but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
• Ps 7:9–15Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the righteous; their minds and hearts are searched by the righteous God.
• Ps 69:22–25Let their table before them become a snare. May it become a retribution and a trap.
• 1 Sam 25:39When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed is Yahweh, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from evil. Yahweh has returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself as wife.
• Isa 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Dan 9:5we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances;
• Ps 21:8–10Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
• Ps 83:9–18Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
• Ps 28:3–4Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
• Ps 17:13Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

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