Chapter 10
- Why Do You Hide Yourself? Why, O Adonai, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
- In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
- For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the Adonai.
- In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, There is no God.
- His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
- He says in his heart, I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.
- His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
- He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
- he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
- The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.
- He says in his heart, God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.
- Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
- Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, You will not call to account?
- But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
- Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.
- The Lord is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land.
- O Adonai, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear
- to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.