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; the lips which speak proudly against the righteous, with pride and scorn.
Psalm 36:11
Do not let the foot of pride come against me, and do not let the hand of the wicked move me.
Psalm 59:12
For the sin of their mouth is the word of their lips, even let them be taken in their pride; and for cursing and the lying which they speak.
Psalm 119:5
O that my ways were fixed to keep Your Precepts!
Psalm 140:5
The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.
Exodus 9:17
Do you still exalt yourself against My people, that you will not let them go?
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all gods; for in the thing in which they were proved against them.
Isaiah 10:12
And it will be, when the Lord has broken off all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks.
Isaiah 14:13
For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.
Jeremiah 43:2
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, spoke then, saying to Jeremiah, You speak falsely! Jehovah our God has not sent you to say, Do not go to Egypt to live there.

Let

Psalm 7:16
His mischief shall return on his own head, and his violence shall come on his own crown.
Psalm 9:15
The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their foot is caught in the net which they hid.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.