| Chapter 10
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| 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.
Rom 3:14
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| 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. |
