Psalms 10
1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?
Why, Yahweh, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in schemes that they devised.
Because of their arrogance, wicked people chase the oppressed; but please let the wicked be trapped by their own schemes that they have devised.
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 person boasts of his deepest desires; he blesses the greedy and insults Yahweh.
4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.
The wicked man has a raised face; he does not seek God. He never thinks about God because he does not care at all about him.
5 His ways writhe at all times, Your judgments [are] on high before him, All his adversaries—he puffs at them.
He is secure at all times, but your righteous decrees are too high for him; he snorts at all his enemies.
6 He has said in his heart, “I am not moved, [And am] not in calamity to generation and generation.”
He says in his heart,” I will never fail; throughout all generations I will not meet 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 deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.
8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
He waits in ambush near the villages; in the secret places he murders the innocent; his eyes look for some helpless victim.
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 lurks in secret like a lion in the thicket; he lies in wait to catch the oppressed. He catches the oppressed when he pulls in his net.
10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.
His victims are crushed and beaten down; they fall into his strong nets.
11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, He has hid His face, He has never seen.”
He says in his heart, “God has forgotten; he covers his face; he will not bother to look.”
12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Arise, Yahweh! Lift up your hand, God! Do not forget the oppressed.
13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
Why does the wicked man reject God and say in his heart, “You will not hold me accountable”?
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 taken notice, for you always see the one who inflicts the misery and sorrow. The helpless entrusts himself to you; you rescue the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
Break the arm of the wicked and evil man. Make him account for his evil deeds, which he thought you would not discover.
16 YHWH [is] King for all time and forever, The nations have perished out of His land!
Yahweh is King forever and ever; the nations are driven 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,
Yahweh, you have heard the needs of the oppressed; you strengthen their heart, you listen to their prayer;
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!
You defend the fatherless and the oppressed so that no man on the earth will cause terror again.
