Psalms 10
1 Lord, whi hast thou go fer awei? thou dispisist `in couenable tymes in tribulacioun.
Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
2 While the wickid is proud, the pore man is brent; thei ben taken in the counsels, bi whiche thei thenken.
The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 Forwhi the synnere is preisid in the desiris of his soule; and the wickid is blessid.
For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
4 The synnere `wraththide the Lord; vp the multitude of his ire he schal not seke.
The wicked [saith], in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!
5 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.
His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; [as for] all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6 For he seide in his herte, Y schal not be moued, fro generacioun in to generacioun without yuel.
He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.
7 `Whos mouth is ful of cursyng, and of bitternesse, and of gyle; trauel and sorewe is vndur his tunge.
His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He sittith in aspies with ryche men in priuytees; to sle the innocent man.
He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.
9 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.
He lieth in wait secretly, like a lion in his thicket; he lieth in wait to catch the afflicted: he doth catch the afflicted, drawing him into his net.
10 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.
He croucheth, he boweth down, that the wretched may fall by his strong ones.
11 For he seide in his herte, God hath foryete; he hath turned awei his face, that he se not in to the ende.
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see [it].
12 Lord God, rise thou vp, and thin hond be enhaunsid; foryete thou not pore men.
Arise, Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: forget not the afflicted.
13 For what thing terride the wickid man God to wraththe? for he seide in his herte, God schal not seke.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].
14 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.
Thou hast seen [it], for thou thyself beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite by thy hand. The wretched committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15 Al to-breke thou the arme of the synnere, and yuel willid; his synne schal be souyt, and it schal not be foundun.
Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
16 The Lord schal regne with outen ende, and in to the world of world; folkis, ye schulen perische fro the lond of hym.
Jehovah is King for ever and ever: the nations have perished out of his land.
17 The Lord hath herd the desir of pore men; thin eere hath herd the makyng redi of her herte.
Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek, thou hast established their heart: thou causest thine ear to hear,
18 To deme for the modirles `and meke; that a man `leie to no more to `magnyfie hym silf on erthe.
To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.
