Psalms 10
1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost 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 devices 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 hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.
Forwhi the synnere is preisid in the desiris of his soule; and the wickid is blessid.
4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.
The synnere `wraththide the Lord; vp the multitude of his ire he schal not seke.
5 Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries — he puffeth 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 hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.
For he seide in his herte, Y schal not be moued, fro generacioun in to generacioun without yuel.
7 Of oaths his mouth is full, 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 doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,
He sittith in aspies with ryche men in priuytees; to sle the innocent man.
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.
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 boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.
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 hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath 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 Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.
Lord God, rise thou vp, and thin hond be enhaunsid; foryete thou not pore men.
13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath 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 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, 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 Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, 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 The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine 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 addeth 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.
