“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. 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.” (Psalm 10:1-18 AV)
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