Psalms 10
10:1 Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?
10:2 Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the LORD.
10:4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
10:5 His ways prosper at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
10:6 He saith in his heart: 'I shall not be moved, I who to all generations shall not be in adversity.'
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
10:8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in secret places doth he slay the innocent; his eyes are on the watch for the helpless.
10:9 He lieth in wait in a secret place as a lion in his lair, he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.
10:10 He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.
10:11 He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten; He hideth His face; He will never see.'
10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Thy hand; forget not the humble.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
10:14 Thou hast seen; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand; unto Thee the helpless committeth himself; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
10:15 Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.
10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations are perished out of His land.
10:17 LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;
10:18 To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.