Psalms 10
1 Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
Wherefore, O Yahweh, shouldst thou stand afar off? [Wherefore] hide thyself, in times of destitution?
2 The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
In the pride of the lawless one, he hotly pursueth the poor, let them be caught in the plots which they have devised!
3 For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
For the lawless one hath boasted over the longing of his soul, and, the robber, hath blasphemed Yahweh.
4 The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:
5 His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
His ways are firm at all times, On high, are thy righteous regulations, out of his sight, As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them:
6 He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be shaken, —From generation to generation, shall I be in no misfortune.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
With cursing, his mouth is full, and with deceptions and oppression, Under his tongue, are trouble and mischief:
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 abideth in the lurking-place of villages, In the hiding-places, he murdereth the innocent, —His eyes, for the unfortunate, are on the watch:
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 lieth in wait in a hiding-place, like a lion in his covert, He lieth in wait to catch the humbled, He catcheth the humbled, by drawing him into his net:
10 He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
He croucheth, he lieth down, then falleth he with his strong claws upon the unfortunate.
11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
He hath said in his heart, GOD hath forgotten, —He hath veiled his face, Oh he hath never seen!
12 Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
Arise! Yahweh! O GOD! raise thy hand, —Do not forget the patient!
13 Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
Wherefore hath the lawless one blasphemed God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt 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 hast seen! For, thou, mischief and misery, dost discern, to requite with thine own hand, Unto thee, doth, the unfortunate one, give himself up, To the fatherless, thou thyself, hast become a helper.
15 Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
Shatter thou the arm of the lawless one, And, as for the wrongful, wilt thou not enquire for his lawlessness—wilt thou not find [it]?
16 The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
Yahweh, is king, to times age-abiding and beyond, The nations have perished out of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
The longing of the patient, thou hast heard, O Yahweh, Thou wilt establish their heart, Thou wilt make attentive thine ear:
18 To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.
To vindicate the fatherless and the crushed, A man of the earth, shall, no further, cause terror!
