Psalms 10
1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?
Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in schemes that they devised.
The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 Because the wicked has boasted Of the desire of his soul, And he has blessed a dishonest gainer, He has despised YHWH.
For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.
The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
5 His ways writhe at all times, Your judgments [are] on high before him, All his adversaries—he puffs at them.
His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6 He has said in his heart, “I am not moved, [And am] not in calamity to generation and generation.”
He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.
7 His mouth is full of oaths, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
9 He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor, He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.
He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.
10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.
He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.
11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, He has hid His face, He has never seen.”
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].
12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Arise, Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.
13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
14 You have seen, For You behold perverseness and anger; By giving into Your hand, The afflicted leave [it] on You, You have been a helper of the fatherless.
Thou hast seen [it], for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
16 YHWH [is] King for all time and forever, The nations have perished out of His land!
Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.
17 You have heard the desire of the humble, O YHWH. You prepare their heart; You cause Your ear to attend,
Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!
To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.
