A moment in scripture
Psalms 10:2
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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
- Psalms 10:3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
- Psalms 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.