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
May lying lips be silenced -- lips that speak defiantly against the innocent with arrogance and contempt!
Psalm 36:11
Do not let arrogant men overtake me, or let evil men make me homeless!
Psalm 59:12
They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!
Psalm 119:5
If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!
Psalm 140:5
Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me. (Selah)
Exodus 9:17
You are still exalting yourself against my people by not releasing them.
Exodus 18:11
Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them."
Isaiah 10:12
But when the sovereign master finishes judging Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.
Isaiah 14:13
You said to yourself, "I will climb up to the sky. Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. I will rule on the mountain of assembly on the remote slopes of Zaphon.
Jeremiah 43:2
Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and other arrogant men said to Jeremiah, "You are telling a lie! The Lord our God did not send you to tell us, 'You must not go to Egypt and settle there.'

Let

Psalm 7:16
He becomes the victim of his own destructive plans and the violence he intended for others falls on his own head.
Psalm 9:15
The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.
Proverbs 5:22
The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

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