¶ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?(Psalm 10:1)
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. (Psalm 10:2)
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. (Psalm 10:3)
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. (Psalm 10:4)
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. (Psalm 10:5)
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. (Psalm 10:6)
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. (Psalm 10:7)
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. (Psalm 10:8)
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. (Psalm 10:9)
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. (Psalm 10:10)
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. (Psalm 10:11)
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt notThou 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 (Psalm 10:14).
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. (Psalm 10:15)
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. (Psalm 10:16)
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: (Psalm 10:17)
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. (Psalm 10:18)
Psalm 10 by David, the son of Jesse.