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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.
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Psalm 10
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