Psalms 10

1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?

Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?

2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in schemes that they devised.

Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are 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 heart's desire, and the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn 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, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; 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 prosper at all times; 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, I who to all generations shall not be in 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 secret places doth he slay the innocent; his eyes are on the watch for the helpless.

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 in a secret place as a lion in his lair, he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.

10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.

He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.

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 His face; He will never see.'

12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Thy hand; forget not the humble.

13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?

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; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand; unto Thee the helpless committeth himself; 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, search out his wickedness, till none be found.

16 YHWH [is] King for all time and forever, The nations have perished out of His land!

The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations are 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,

LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;

18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!

To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.