Psalms Chapter 10

10 : 1 Why stand you afar off, O LORD? why hide you yourself in times of trouble?

10 : 2 The wicked in his pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

10 : 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, whom the LORD abhors.

10 : 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

10 : 5 His ways are always grievous; your judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

10 : 6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.

10 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

10 : 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are privately set against the poor.

10 : 9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

10 : 10 He crouches, and humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

10 : 11 He has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see it.

10 : 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand: forget not the humble.

10 : 13 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

10 : 14 You have seen it; for you behold mischief and spite, to requite it with your hand: the poor commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless.

10 : 15 Break you the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till you find none.

10 : 16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

10 : 17 LORD, you have heard the desire of the humble: you will prepare their heart, you will cause your ear to hear:

10 : 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.