Psalms 10

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

1Unto the end. A psalm to David.

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

2In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain, like a sparrow.

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

3For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow: they have prepared their arrows in the quiver, to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.

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

4For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?

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

5The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.

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

6The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity, hateth his own soul.

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

7He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.

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.

8For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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