Psalms 10

1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? [why] dost thou overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

2 While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

3 Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

4 The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [him]: God is not before him.

The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.

5 His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries — he puffeth at them.

6 For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without evil from generation to generation.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

7 Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,

8 He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

9 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.

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.

10 He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

He is bruised — he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

11 For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

12 Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

13 Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

14 Thou seest [it]; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave [it], Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

16 The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out his land.

Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

17 The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

18 to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress — man of the earth!