Psalms 10
1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?
Lord, whi hast thou go fer awei? thou dispisist `in couenable tymes in tribulacioun.
2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in schemes that they devised.
While the wickid is proud, the pore man is brent; thei ben taken in the counsels, bi whiche thei thenken.
3 Because the wicked has boasted Of the desire of his soul, And he has blessed a dishonest gainer, He has despised YHWH.
Forwhi the synnere is preisid in the desiris of his soule; and the wickid is blessid.
4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.
The synnere `wraththide the Lord; vp the multitude of his ire he schal not seke.
5 His ways writhe at all times, Your judgments [are] on high before him, All his adversaries—he puffs at them.
God is not in his siyt; hise weies ben defoulid in al tyme. God, thi domes ben takun awei fro his face; he schal be lord of alle hise enemyes.
6 He has said in his heart, “I am not moved, [And am] not in calamity to generation and generation.”
For he seide in his herte, Y schal not be moued, fro generacioun in to generacioun without yuel.
7 His mouth is full of oaths, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
`Whos mouth is ful of cursyng, and of bitternesse, and of gyle; trauel and sorewe is vndur his tunge.
8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,
He sittith in aspies with ryche men in priuytees; to sle the innocent man.
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.
Hise iyen biholden on a pore man; he settith aspies in hid place, as a lioun in his denne. He settith aspies, for to rauysche a pore man; for to rauysche a pore man, while he drawith the pore man.
10 He is bruised—he bows down, The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.
In his snare he schal make meke the pore man; he schal bowe hym silf, and schal falle doun, whanne he hath be lord of pore men.
11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, He has hid His face, He has never seen.”
For he seide in his herte, God hath foryete; he hath turned awei his face, that he se not in to the ende.
12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.
Lord God, rise thou vp, and thin hond be enhaunsid; foryete thou not pore men.
13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”
For what thing terride the wickid man God to wraththe? for he seide in his herte, God schal not seke.
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 seest, for thou biholdist trauel and sorewe; that thou take hem in to thin hondis. The pore man is left to thee; thou schalt be an helpere to the fadirles and modirles.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
Al to-breke thou the arme of the synnere, and yuel willid; his synne schal be souyt, and it schal not be foundun.
16 YHWH [is] King for all time and forever, The nations have perished out of His land!
The Lord schal regne with outen ende, and in to the world of world; folkis, ye schulen perische fro the lond of hym.
17 You have heard the desire of the humble, O YHWH. You prepare their heart; You cause Your ear to attend,
The Lord hath herd the desir of pore men; thin eere hath herd the makyng redi of her herte.
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He adds no more to oppress—man of the earth!
To deme for the modirles `and meke; that a man `leie to no more to `magnyfie hym silf on erthe.
