Psalms 10
10
PSALM 10
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
1Wherefore is it that thou, O Lord,
dost stand from us afar?
And wherefore hidest thou thyself,
when times so troublous are?
2The wicked in his loftiness
doth persecute the poor:
In these devices they have fram'd
let them be taken sure.
3The wicked of his heart's desire
doth talk with boasting great;
He blesseth him that's covetous,
whom yet the Lord doth hate.
4The wicked, through his pride of face,
on God he doth not call;
And in the counsels of his heart
the Lord is not at all.
5His ways they always grievous are;
thy judgments from his sight
Removed are: at all his foes
he puffeth with despight.
6Within his heart he thus hath said,
I shall not moved be;
And no adversity at all
shall ever come to me.
7His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit,
is fill'd abundantly;
And underneath his tongue there is
mischief and vanity.
8He closely sits in villages;
he slays the innocent:
Against the poor that pass him by
his cruel eyes are bent.
9He, lion-like, lurks in his den;
he waits the poor to take;
And when he draws him in his net,
his prey he doth him make.
10Himself he humbleth very low,
he croucheth down withal,
That so a multitude of poor
may by his strong ones fall.
11He thus hath said within his heart,
The Lord hath quite forgot;
He hides his countenance, and he
for ever sees it not.
12O Lord, do thou arise; O God,
lift up thine hand on high:
Put not the meek afflicted ones
out of thy memory.
13Why is it that the wicked man
thus doth the Lord despise?
Because that God will it require
he in his heart denies.
14Thou hast it seen; for their mischief
and spite thou wilt repay:
The poor commits himself to thee;
thou art the orphan's stay.
15The arm break of the wicked man,
and of the evil one;
Do thou seek out his wickedness,
until thou findest none.
16The Lord is King through ages all,
ev'n to eternity;
The heathen people from his land
are perish'd utterly.
17O Lord, of those that humble are
thou the desire didst hear;
Thou wilt prepare their heart, and thou
to hear wilt bend thine ear;
18To judge the fatherless, and those
that are oppressed sore;
That man, that is but sprung of earth,
may them oppress no more.
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Psalms 10
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PSALM 10
1Lord, why hast thou gone far away? thou despisest us in covenable times in tribulation.
2While the wicked man waxeth proud, the poor man is burnt; they be taken in the wicked counsels, which they thinked.
3For why the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul; and the wicked is blessed. The sinner hath stirred the Lord to wrath;
4after the multitude of his wrath, he shall not seek after God. God is not in his sight;
5his ways be defouled in all time. Thy dooms be taken away from his face; he shall be lord of all his enemies.
6For he said in his heart, I shall not be moved, from generation into gener-ation without evil.
7Whose mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of guile; travail and sorrow is under his tongue.
8He sitteth in ambushes with rich men in privates; to slay the innocent man. His eyes behold cruelly on the poor man;
9he setteth ambushes in hid place, as a lion in his den. He setteth ambushes, for to ravish a poor man; for to ravish a poor man, while he draweth in the poor man. In his snare he shall make meek the poor man;
10he shall bow himself down, and he shall fall, when he hath been lord of poor men.
11For he said in his heart, God hath forgotten; he hath turned away his face, that he see not into the end.
12Lord God, rise thou up, and thine hand be enhanced; forget thou not poor men.
13For what thing stirred the wicked man God to wrath? for he said in his heart, God shall not seek.
14Thou seest, for thou beholdest travail and sorrow; that thou take them into thine hands. The poor man is left to thee; thou shalt be an helper to the fatherless and motherless.
15All-break thou the arm of the sinner, and evil-willed; his sin shall be sought, and it shall not be found.
16The Lord shall reign without end, and into the world of world; folks, ye shall perish from the land of him.
17The Lord hath heard the desire of poor men; thine ear hath heard the making ready of their heart.
18To deem for the motherless and meek; that a man presume no more to make himself great on earth.
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