Psalms 10

1 Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?

2 Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3 Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

4 The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek [after God: ] God [is] not in all his thoughts.

5 Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries — he puffeth at them.

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

6 He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.

7 Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

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 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.

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.

He 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.

10 He is bruised — he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.

He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

11 He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].

12 Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

13 Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it].

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 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.

15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man: ] seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.

16 Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!

The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

17 The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

18 To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress — man of the earth!

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.