Psalms 10
1 Why stand you afar off, O Lord? [why] do you overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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 haughtiness of the wicked the poor are in distress; They are caught in the wiles which are contrived for them.
3 Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.
The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire; The rapacious renounceth and contemneth 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 [[saith]] in his haughtiness, “He careth not!” All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”
5 His ways are profane at all times; your judgements are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.
His course is always prosperous; Far in the heights are thy judgments from him; As for all his enemies, 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 saith in his heart, “I shall never fall; I shall never be in adversity.”
7 Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.
His mouth is full of perjury, deceit, and oppression; Mischief and injustice are upon his tongue.
8 He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to kill the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed upon the poor.
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 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.
10 He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
He croucheth, and lowereth himself, And the wretched fall into his paws.
11 For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.
He saith in his heart, “God doth forget; He hideth his face; he doth never see it.”
12 Arise, O Lord God; let your hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.
Arise, O LORD! O God, lift up thine hand: Forget not the distressed!
13 Therefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, “He careth not for it”?
14 You see [it]; for you do observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into your hands: the poor has been left to you; you were a helper to the orphan.
Thou 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.
15 Break you the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.
Break thou the arm of the unjust and wicked man; Seek out his wickedness, till thou canst find none!
16 The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: you Gentiles shall perish out his land.
Jehovah is king for ever and ever; The gentiles shall perish out of his land.
17 The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: your ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;
Thou, O LORD! wilt hear the desires of the distressed; Thou wilt strengthen their hearts; Thou wilt lend a listening ear!
18 to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.
Thou wilt maintain the cause of the fatherless and the oppressed, That henceforth none may be driven from the land.
