Psalm 10:4

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Summary

Psalm 10:4

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

The pride

Isaiah 3:9

Will not

God, etc

Psalm 14:1

Psalm 53:1

Ephesians 2:12

Thoughts

Romans 1:21

Bible References

The pride

For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Will not

The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.

And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.

O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;

Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.

God, etc

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

{To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Thoughts

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.