الْمَزْمُورُ
الْعَاشِرُ

 

Psalm
10

1
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of
trouble?

2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the
devices that they have imagined.

3
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom
the LORD abhorreth.

4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God
is not in all his thoughts.

5
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 shall not be moved: for I shall never be in
adversity.

7
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief
and vanity.

8
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 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 croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

11
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will
never see it.

12
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

13
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not
require it.

14
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 thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till
thou find none.

16
The 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:

18
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no
more oppress.