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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Tehillim 10
10
1Why standest Thou afar off, Hashem? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of tzoros?
2The reshah in his ga'avah (haughtiness) doth persecute the ani (poor);#10:2 See Zech 9:9 where ani is Moshiach let them be caught in the devices that they have schemed.
3For the reshah boasteth of his ta'avat nefesh (soulʼs lust), and blesseth the covetous, whom Hashem abhorreth.
4The reshah, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after Him; Elohim is not in all his thoughts.
5His ways are always prosperous; Thy mishpatim are on high, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he sneers at them.
6He hath said in his lev, I shall not be shaken; throughout all generations I shall never be in trouble.
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his leshon (tongue) is trouble and iniquity.
8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in the places for ambush doth he murder the naki (innocent); his eyes are secretly 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 reshet.
10He crouches, and stoops, that the poor may fall by his atzum (might).
11He hath said in his lev, El hath forgotten; He hideth his face; He will never see it.
12Arise, Hashem; O El, lift up Thine yad; forget not the aniyim.
13For why doth the reshah renounce Elohim? He hath said in his lev, Thou wilt not call me to account.
14Thou hast seen it; for Thou beholdest trouble and ka'as (grief), to requite it with Thy yad; the helpless committeth himself unto Thee; Thou art the Ozer (helper) of the yatom (orphan).
15Break Thou the zero'a of the reshah and the evil man; call to account his wickedness that would not be found out.
16 Hashem is Melech olam va'ed; the Goyim are perished out of His land.
17 Hashem, Thou hast heard the desire of the aniyim; Thou wilt strengthen their lev, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to hear;
18To judge the yatom (orphan) and the oppressed, that enosh of the earth may no more strike terror.
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