Psalms 10

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

Why stand you far off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

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

The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them 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 boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD detests.

4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

5 His ways writhe at all times, Your judgments [are] on high before him, All his adversaries—he puffs at them.

His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

6 He has said in his heart, “I am not moved, [And am] not in calamity to generation and generation.”

He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never 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 fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,

He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.

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 lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

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

He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor 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 has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

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

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

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

Wherefore does the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, You will 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.

You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself unto you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

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 heathen 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, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

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

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.