Psalms 10
10
A Prayer for Justice
1Why are you so far away, O LORD?
Why do you hide yourself when we are in trouble?
2The wicked are proud and persecute the poor;
catch them in the traps they have made.
3The wicked are proud of their evil desires;
the greedy curse and reject the LORD.
4The wicked do not care about the LORD;
in their pride they think that God doesn't matter.
5The wicked succeed in everything.
They cannot understand God's judgements;
they sneer at their enemies.
6They say to themselves, “I will never fail;
I will never be in trouble.”
7 #
Rom 3.14
Their speech is filled with curses, lies, and threats;
they are quick to speak hateful, evil words.
8They hide themselves in the villages,
waiting to murder innocent people.
They spy on their helpless victims;
9they wait in their hiding places like lions.
They lie in wait for the poor;
they catch them in their traps and drag them away.
10The helpless victims lie crushed;
brute strength has defeated them.
11The wicked say to themselves, “God doesn't care!
He has closed his eyes and will never see me!”
12O LORD, punish those wicked people!
Remember those who are suffering!
13How can the wicked despise God
and say to themselves, “He will not punish me”?
14But you do see; you take notice of trouble and suffering
and are always ready to help.
The helpless commit themselves to you;
you have always helped the needy.
15Break the power of wicked and evil people;
punish them for the wrong they have done
until they do it no more.
16The LORD is king for ever and ever.
Those who worship other gods
will vanish from his land.
17You will listen, O LORD, to the prayers of the lowly;
you will give them courage.
18You will hear the cries of the oppressed and the orphans;
you will judge in their favour,
so that mortal men may cause terror no more.
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Psalm 10
10
A Prayer for the Overthrow of the Wicked
1Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor:
let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,
and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts.
5His ways are always grievous;
thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved:
for I shall never be in adversity.
7 #
Rom 3.14. His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
in the secret places doth he murder the innocent:
his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:
he lieth in wait to catch the poor:
he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:
he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand:
forget not the humble.
13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?
He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
14Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite,
to requite it with thy hand:
the poor committeth himself unto thee;
thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:
seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16The Lord is King for ever and ever:
the heathen are perished out of his land.
17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:
thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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