Psalms 10
1 Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
Why, O Lord, hast thou retired afar off? why dost thou slight us in our wants, in the time of trouble?
2 The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.
3 For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
For the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul: and the unjust man is blessed.
4 The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
The sinner hath provoked the Lord according to the multitude of his wrath he will not seek him:
5 His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
God is not before his eyes: his ways are filthy at all times. Thy judgments are removed from his sight: he shall rule over all his enemies.
6 He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
For he hath said in his heart: I shall not be moved from generation to generation, and shall be without evil.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labour and sorrow.
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 sitteth in ambush with the rich in private places, that he may kill the innocent.
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.
His eyes are upon the poor man: He lieth in wait in secret like a lion in his den. He lieth in ambush that he may catch the poor man: to catch the poor, whilst he draweth him to him.
10 He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
In his net he will bring him down, he will crouch and fall, when he shall have power over the poor.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
For he hath said in his heart: God hath forgotten, he hath turned away his face not to see to the end.
12 Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
Arise, O Lord God, let thy hand be exalted: forget not the poor.
13 Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
Wherefore hath the wicked provoked God? for he hath 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 considerest labour and sorrow: that thou mayst deliver them into thy hands. To thee is the poor man left: thou wilt be 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 of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, 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 to eternity, yea, for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish from his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
The Lord hath heard the desire of the poor: thy ear hath heard the preparation of their heart.
18 To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.
To judge for the fatherless and for the humble, that man may no more presume to magnify himself upon earth.
