Psalms 10
1 Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
2 In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
3 For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
5 He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
6 He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
8 He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
9 He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
He lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
10 They are crushed and beaten down; the hapless fall prey to his strength.
He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
11 He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
12 Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
13 Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
14 But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
16 The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
17 You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
18 to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.
