Psalms 10

1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? [why] dost thou overlook [us] in times of need, in affliction?

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

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

3 Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.

The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after [him]: God is not before him.

5 Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries — he puffeth at them.

His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

6 He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, [continuing] without evil from generation to generation.

7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,

Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

8 He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He lies in wait with rich [men] in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor.

9 He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.

He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him [after him]: he will bring him down in his snare.

10 He is bruised — he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

11 He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require [it].

14 Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave [it], Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.

Thou seest [it]; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

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

Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

16 Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out his land.

17 The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

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

to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.