Psalms 10

¹Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?

²In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued;

³For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,

⁴The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it.

⁵His ways are firm at all times;

⁶He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;

⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:

⁸He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;

⁹He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;

¹⁰He croucheth, he boweth down,

¹¹He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten;

¹²Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:

¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,

¹⁴Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand:

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked;

¹⁶Jehovah is King for ever and ever:

¹⁷Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:

¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,