Psalms 10

¹Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

²Through the haughtiness of the wicked the poor are in distress; They are caught in the wiles which are contrived for them.

³The wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire; The rapacious renounceth and contemneth Jehovah.

⁴The wicked [saith] in his haughtiness, "He careth not!" All his thoughts are, "There is no God."

⁵His course is always prosperous; Far in the heights are thy judgments from him; As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

⁶He saith in his heart, "I shall never fall; I shall never be in adversity."

⁷His mouth is full of perjury, deceit, and oppression; Mischief and injustice are upon his tongue.

⁸He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed upon the poor.

⁹He secretly lieth in wait, like a lion in a thicket; He lieth in wait to seize upon the helpless; He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

¹⁰He croucheth, and lowereth himself, And the wretched fall into his paws.

¹¹He saith in his heart, "God doth forget; He hideth his face; he doth never see it."

¹²Arise, O LORD! O God, lift up thine hand: Forget not the distressed!

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, "He careth not for it"?

¹⁴Thou dost see it; yea, thou beholdest malice and oppression, And markest it upon thy hand! The poor committeth himself to thee; Thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the unjust and wicked man; Seek out his wickedness, till thou canst find none!

¹⁶Jehovah is king for ever and ever; The gentiles shall perish out of his land.

¹⁷Thou, O LORD! wilt hear the desires of the distressed; Thou wilt strengthen their hearts; Thou wilt lend a listening ear!

¹⁸Thou wilt maintain the cause of the fatherless and the oppressed, That henceforth none may be driven from the land.

Psalms 10

¹Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

²The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

³For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

⁴The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

⁵His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

⁶He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

⁸He 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.

⁹He 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.

¹⁰He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

¹²Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

¹⁴Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

¹⁶The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

¹⁷Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.