| Chapter 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
