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 haughtiness of the wicked the poor are in distress; They are caught in the wiles which are contrived for them.
3 Because the wicked has boasted Of the desire of his soul, And he has blessed a dishonest gainer, He has despised YHWH.
The wicked boasteth of his heart's desire; The rapacious renounceth and 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 his haughtiness, “He careth not!” 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 course is always prosperous; Far in the heights are thy judgments from him; As for all his enemies, 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 never fall; 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 perjury, deceit, and oppression; Mischief and injustice are upon his tongue.
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 murder the innocent; His eyes are secretly fixed upon 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 secretly lieth in wait, like a lion in a thicket; He lieth in wait to seize upon the helpless; He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.
10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.
He croucheth, and lowereth himself, And the wretched fall into his paws.
11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, He has hid His face, He has never seen.”
He saith in his heart, “God doth forget; He hideth his face; he doth 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 thine hand: Forget not the distressed!
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, “He careth not for 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 dost see it; yea, thou beholdest malice and oppression, And markest it upon thy hand! The poor committeth himself to thee; Thou art 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 unjust and wicked man; Seek out his wickedness, till thou canst 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 gentiles shall perish 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,
Thou, O LORD! wilt hear the desires of the distressed; Thou wilt strengthen their hearts; Thou wilt lend a listening ear!
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!
Thou wilt maintain the cause of the fatherless and the oppressed, That henceforth none may be driven from the land.
