Psalms 10
10
Psalm 10
1Why are you so distant, Lord?
Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2The wicked person arrogantly pursues oppressed people.
He will be caught in the schemes that he planned.
3The wicked person boasts about his selfish desires.
He blesses robbers, but he curses the Lord.
4He turns up his nose ⌞and says⌟, “God doesn’t care.”
His every thought ⌞concludes⌟, “There is no God.”
5He always seems to succeed.
Your judgments are beyond his understanding.
He spits at all his opponents.
6He says to himself, “Nothing can shake me.
I’ll never face any trouble.”
7His mouth is full of cursing, deception, and oppression.
Trouble and wrongdoing are on the tip of his tongue.
8He waits in ambush in the villages.
From his hiding places he kills innocent people.
His eyes are on the lookout for victims.
9He lies in his hiding place like a lion in his den.
He hides there to catch oppressed people.
He catches oppressed people when he draws them into his net.
10 ⌞His⌟ victims are crushed.
They collapse,
and they fall under ⌞the weight of⌟ his power.
11He says to himself,
“God has forgotten.
He has hidden his face.
He will never see it!”
12Arise, O Lord!
Lift your hand, O God.
Do not forget oppressed people!
13Why does the wicked person despise God?
Why does he say to himself, “God doesn’t care”?
14You have seen ⌞it⌟; yes, you have taken note of trouble and grief
and placed them under your control.
The victim entrusts himself to you.
You alone have been the helper of orphans.
15Break the arm of the wicked and evil person.
Punish his wickedness until you find no more.
16The Lord is king forever and ever.
The nations have vanished from his land.
17You have heard the desire of oppressed people, O Lord.
You encourage them.
You pay close attention to them
18in order to provide justice for orphans and oppressed people
so that no mere mortal will terrify them again.
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Psalms 10
10
1Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued;
Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,
And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.
4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.
All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5His ways are firm at all times;
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;
To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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 helpless.
9He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
10He croucheth, he boweth down,
And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
11He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten;
He hideth his face, he will never see it.
12Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the poor.
13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
And say 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 helpless committeth himself unto thee;
Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15Break thou the arm of the wicked;
And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16Jehovah is King for ever and ever:
The nations are perished out of his land.
17Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:
Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
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