< Psalms 10 >

1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,
Why standest thou farre off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, euen in affliction?
2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.
3 Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.
For the wicked hath made boast of his owne heartes desire, and the couetous blesseth himselfe: he contemneth the Lord.
4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.
The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.
5 Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries — he puffeth at them.
His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
6 He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.
He saith in his heart, I shall neuer be moued, nor be in danger.
7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,
His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.
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 lieth in waite in the villages: in the secret places doeth hee murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poore.
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 lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.
10 He is bruised — he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.
He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poore doe fall by his might.
11 He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.
12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.
Arise, O Lord God: lift vp thine hande: forget not the poore.
13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'
Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
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.
Yet thou hast seene it: for thou beholdest mischiefe and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine handes: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
Breake thou the arme of the wicked and malicious: searche his wickednes, and thou shalt finde none.
16 Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!
The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are destroyed foorth of his land.
17 The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,
Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,
18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress — man of the earth!
To iudge the fatherlesse and poore, that earthly man cause to feare no more.

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