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 put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
Psalm 36:11
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Psalm 59:12
For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; they shall be subject to weakness and to a curse.
Psalm 119:5
O that my ways were ordered to keep thy statutes!
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hid a snare for me and cords; they have spread a net; on the path they have set snares for me. Selah.
Exodus 9:17
Thou even so dost exalt thyself against my people that thou wilt not let them go.
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they dealt proudly he prevailed against them.
Isaiah 10:12
Therefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord has performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will come upon the fruit of the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and upon the glory of his high looks.
Isaiah 14:13
Thou who said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven; upon high next to the stars of God I will exalt my throne: and I will sit upon the mount of the testimony and in the sides of the north;
Jeremiah 43:2
Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou dost speak falsely; the LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Do not go into Egypt to sojourn there:

Let

Psalm 7:16
His work shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
Psalm 9:15
The Gentiles are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid their own foot is taken.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take hold of the wicked, and he shall be imprisoned with the cords of his sins.