Psalms 10
1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?
Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in schemes that they devised.
The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue 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 hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.
The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, 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 wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
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 neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
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 deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
He lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
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 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.
10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.
He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, He has hid His face, He has never seen.”
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
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.
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.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
16 YHWH [is] King for all time and forever, The nations have perished out of His land!
The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
17 You have heard the desire of the humble, O YHWH. You prepare their heart; You cause Your ear to attend,
Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!
To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.
