Psalms 10
1 Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? [why] dost thou overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?
2 The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.
3 For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.
4 The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [him]: God is not before him.
5 His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.
6 He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without evil from generation to generation.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.
8 He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.
9 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.
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.
10 He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.
12 Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.
13 Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].
14 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.
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.
15 Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.
16 The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;
18 To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.
to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.
