Psalm 10:9
New International Version
like a lion in cover he lies in wait. He lies in wait to catch the helpless; he catches the helpless and drags them off in his net.

New Living Translation
Like lions crouched in hiding, they wait to pounce on the helpless. Like hunters they capture the helpless and drag them away in nets.

English Standard Version
he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.

Berean Standard Bible
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

King James Bible
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

New King James Version
He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den; He lies in wait to catch the poor; He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.

New American Standard Bible
He lurks in secret like a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the needy; He catches the needy when he pulls him into his net.

NASB 1995
He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

NASB 1977
He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lurks to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Legacy Standard Bible
He lies in wait in a hiding place as a lion in his lair; He lies in wait to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Amplified Bible
He lurks in a hiding place like a lion in his lair; He lies in wait to catch the afflicted; He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

Christian Standard Bible
he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize a victim; he seizes a victim and drags him in his net.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
he lurks in secret like a lion in a thicket. He lurks in order to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted and drags him in his net.

American Standard Version
He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he lies in wait to plunder the poor in the snare of his net.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

Contemporary English Version
They are hungry lions hiding in the bushes, hoping to catch some helpless passerby. They trap the poor in nets and drag them away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.

English Revised Version
He lurketh in the covert as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He lies in his hiding place like a lion in his den. He hides there to catch oppressed people. He catches oppressed people when he draws them into his net.

Good News Translation
they wait in their hiding place like lions. They lie in wait for the poor; they catch them in their traps and drag them away.

International Standard Version
Their eyes secretly watch the helpless, lying in wait like a lion in his den. They lie in wait to catch the afflicted. They catch the afflicted when they pull him into their net.

JPS Tanakh 1917
He lieth in wait in a secret place as a lion in his lair, He lieth in wait to catch the poor; He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.

Literal Standard Version
He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor, | He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.

Majority Standard Bible
He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.

New American Bible
They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net.

NET Bible
He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

New Revised Standard Version
they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert; they lurk that they may seize the poor; they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.

New Heart English Bible
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net.

Webster's Bible Translation
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

World English Bible
He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.

Young's Literal Translation
He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

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Context
The Perils of the Pilgrim
8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless. 9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net. 10They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.…

Cross References
Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the message of the kingdom but does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the seed sown along the path.

Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalm 10:10
They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.

Psalm 17:12
like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

Psalm 22:13
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

Psalm 57:6
They spread a net for my feet; my soul was despondent. They dug a pit before me, but they themselves have fallen into it! Selah

Psalm 59:3
See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

He lieth

Psalm 17:12
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

Psalm 59:3
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.

Micah 7:2
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

secretly.

Lamentations 3:10
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

Amos 3:4
Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?

Nahum 2:11,12
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? …

to catch

Jeremiah 5:26
For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

Ezekiel 19:3-6
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men…

Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

poor, when

Psalm 12:5
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.

Psalm 35:10
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Psalm 37:14
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

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Psalm 10
1. David complains of the wicked
12. He prays for remedy
16. He professes his confidence














(9) Lieth in wait.--A confusion of metaphor. The wicked is first, the lion watching for his prey, and then the hunter snaring animals. "Poor," here--better, afflicted (see Psalm 9:12). Translate, in his hiding-place he lurks, as a lion in his lair, lurks to seize a sufferer, seizes a sufferer, drawing him into his net.

Verse 9. - He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; or, he lurks in the covert as a lion in his lair (Kay) - a very striking image! He lieth in wait (or, lurks) to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net; rather, by drawing him into his net. The mode of capture is intended.

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Hebrew
He lies in wait
יֶאֱרֹ֬ב (ye·’ĕ·rōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 693: To lie in wait

like a lion
כְּאַרְיֵ֬ה (kə·’ar·yêh)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 738: A lion

in a thicket;
בְסֻכֹּ֗ה (ḇə·suk·kōh)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5520: A thicket, covert, lair

he lurks
יֶ֭אֱרֹב (ye·’ĕ·rōḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 693: To lie in wait

to seize
לַחֲט֣וֹף (la·ḥă·ṭō·wp̄)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 2414: To clutch, to seize as a, prisoner

the oppressed;
עָנִ֑י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

he catches
יַחְטֹ֥ף (yaḥ·ṭōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2414: To clutch, to seize as a, prisoner

the lowly
עָ֝נִ֗י (‘ā·nî)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6041: Poor, afflicted, humble

in his dragnet.
בְּמָשְׁכ֥וֹ (bə·mā·šə·ḵōw)
Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4900: To draw, drag


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