Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.

New American Standard Bible

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

King James Version

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Holman Bible

He waits in ambush near the villages;
he kills the innocent in secret places.
His eyes are on the lookout for the helpless;

International Standard Version

They wait in ambush in the villages, they kill the innocent in secret.

A Conservative Version

He sits in the lurking-places of the villages. In the covert places he murders the innocent man. His eyes are secretly set against the poor man.

American Standard Version

He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

Amplified


He lurks in ambush in the villages;
In hiding places he kills the innocent;
He lies in wait for the unfortunate [the unhappy, the poor, the helpless].

Bible in Basic English

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

Julia Smith Translation

Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.

King James 2000

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.

Modern King James verseion

He sits in the hiding-places of the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the poor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

He sitteth lurking in the thievish corners of the streets, and privily in his lurking dens doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are set against the poor.

NET Bible

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

New Heart English Bible

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

The Emphasized Bible

He abideth in the lurking-place of villages, In the hiding-places, he murdereth the innocent, - His eyes, for the unfortunate, are on the watch:

Webster

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

World English Bible

He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.

Youngs Literal Translation

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He sitteth
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

in the lurking places
מארב 
Ma'arab 
Usage: 5

of the villages
חצר 
Chatser 
Usage: 190

in the secret places
מסתּר 
Mictar 
Usage: 10

הרג 
Harag 
Usage: 166

the innocent
נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

References

Hastings

Context Readings

A Prayer For God To Throw Down The Wicked

7 His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched. 9 He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.

Cross References

Habakkuk 3:14

Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly.

1 Samuel 22:18

And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.

1 Samuel 23:23

And see, and ascertain all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with sure information, that I may go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout the thousands of Judah.

2 Kings 21:16

And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah.

Psalm 17:11

They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth.

Psalm 94:6

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless,

Proverbs 1:11-12

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 6:12-13

A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;

Jeremiah 22:17

But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it.

Luke 8:1

And it came to pass afterwards that he went through the country city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him,

Luke 10:1

Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come.

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