Psalms, psalm 10
1: Why standest thou afar off,
O JAH?
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 KING
abhorreth.
4: The wicked, through the pride of his countenance,
will not seek after JAH:
JAH 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, JAH hath forgotten:
he hideth his face; he will never see it.
12: Arise, O JAH;
O JAH, lift up
thine hand: forget not the humble.
13: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn JAH?
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: JAH
is King for ever
and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
17: ,
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.
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