Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

The wicked, etc

Psalm 31:18
Let the lying lips be dumb, Which speak against the righteous insolently, With pride and contempt.
Psalm 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, And let not the hand of the wicked drive me away.
Psalm 59:12
For 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.
Psalm 119:5
Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. Selah
Exodus 9:17
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; yea, in the thing wherein they dealt proudly against them.
Isaiah 10:12
Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Isaiah 14:13
And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
Jeremiah 43:2
then spake Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Ye shall not go into Egypt to sojourn there;

Let

Psalm 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalm 9:15
The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

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