[[Psalm 9|<< Psalm 9]] | [[Psalms|Psalms]] | [[Psalm 11|Psalm 11 >>]] ### Psalm 10 1 WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? _why_ hidest thou _thyself_ in times of trouble? ^1 2 The wicked in _his_ pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ^2 3 For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, _whom_ the LORD abhors. ^3 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek _after_ _God:_ God _is_ not in all his thoughts. ^4 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments _are_ far above out of his sight: _as_ _for_ all his enemies, he puffs at them. ^5 6 He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for _I_ _shall_ never _be_ in adversity. ^6 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue _is_ mischief and vanity. ^7 8 He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. ^8 9 He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draws him into his net. ^9 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_. ^11 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. ^12 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he has said in his heart, Thou wilt not require _it_. ^13 14 Thou hast seen _it;_ for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite _it_ with thy hand: the poor commits himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. ^14 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil _man:_ seek out his wickedness _till_ thou find none. ^15 16 The LORD _is_ King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. ^16 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: ^17 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. ^18