Psalms 10
10
I
1Why, Lord, do you stand afar
and pay no heed in times of trouble?
2Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor;
they trap them by their cunning schemes.#Is 32:7.
II
3The wicked even boast of their greed;
these robbers curse and scorn the Lord.#Ps 36:2.
4In their insolence the wicked boast:
“God does not care; there is no God.”#Ps 14:1; Jb 22:13; Is 29:15; Jer 5:12; Zep 1:12.
5Yet their affairs always succeed;
they ignore your judgment on high;
they sneer at all who oppose them.
6They say in their hearts, “We will never fall;
never will we see misfortune.”
7Their mouths are full of oaths, violence, and lies;
discord and evil are under their tongues.#Is 32:7; Rom 3:14.
8They wait in ambush near towns;
their eyes watch for the helpless
to murder the innocent in secret.#Ps 11:2; Jb 24:14.
9They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket,
hide there to trap the poor,
snare them and close the net.#Ps 17:12; Prv 1:11; Jer 5:26.
10The helpless are crushed, laid low;
they fall into the power of the wicked,
11Who say in their hearts, “God has forgotten,
shows no concern, never bothers to look.”#Ps 44:25; 64:6; 73:11; 94:7; Ez 9:9.
III
12Rise up, Lord! God, lift up your hand!
Do not forget the poor!
13Why should the wicked scorn God,
say in their hearts, “God does not care”?
14But you do see;
you take note of misery and sorrow;#Ps 31:8; 56:9; 2 Kgs 20:5; Is 25:8; Rev 7:17.
you take the matter in hand.
To you the helpless can entrust their cause;
you are the defender of orphans.#Ex 22:21–22.
15Break the arm of the wicked and depraved;
make them account for their crimes;
let none of them survive.
IV
16The Lord is king forever;#Ps 145:13; Jer 10:10.
the nations have vanished from his land.
17You listen, Lord, to the needs of the poor;
you strengthen their heart and incline your ear.
18You win justice for the orphaned and oppressed;#Dt 10:18.
no one on earth will cause terror again.
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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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