Psalms 10
10
# 10 It is likely that Pss. 9 and 10 were originally one acrostic psalm. Eight Hebrew manuscripts unite them as well as the Aramaic, Septuagint, and the Latin Vulgate. The Cry of the Oppressed
The Lord is Concealed
1Lord, why do you seem so far away when evil is near?
Why have you hidden yourself when I need you the most? # 10:1 Or “when trouble is near.”
2The arrogant in their elitist pride persecute the poor and helpless.
May you pour out upon them
the very evil they’ve dreamed up against others!
3How they brag and boast of their cravings, exalting the greedy.
They congratulate themselves as they despise you—
4these arrogant ones, so smug and secure!
In their delusion the wicked boast, saying,
“God doesn’t care about what we do.
There’s nothing to worry about!”
5So successful are they in their schemes
and prosperous in all their plans!
Your laws are far from them;
they scoff at their enemies.
6They boast that neither God nor men will bring them down.
They sneer at all their enemies, saying in their hearts,
“We’ll have success in all we do
and never have to face trouble.”
7Their mouths spew out cursing, lies, and threats.
Only trouble and turmoil come from all their plans.
8-9Like beasts lurking in the shadows of the city,
they crouch silently in ambush, waiting for the innocent to pass by.
Pouncing on the poor, they catch them in their snare
to murder their prey in secret
as they plunder their helpless victims.
10They crush the lowly as they fall beneath their brutal blows,
watching their victims collapse in defeat!
11Then they say to themselves,
“The Lofty One # 10:11 This is the Hebrew name for God El, the “Lofty [Exalted] God.” is not watching while we do this.
He doesn’t even care! We can get away with it!”
The Lord is Concerned
12Now arise, Yahweh-God! Crush them once and for all!
Don’t forget the helpless and oppressed.
13How dare the wicked think they’ll reject God and escape judgment.
They say to themselves,
“God won’t hold me accountable.”
14Lord, I know you see all that they’re doing,
noting their each and every deed.
You know the trouble and turmoil they’ve caused.
Now punish them thoroughly for all that they’ve done!
The poor and helpless ones trust in you, Lord,
for you are famous for being the helper of the fatherless.
I know you won’t let them down.
15Break the power of the wicked and all their strong-arm tactics.
Search them out and destroy them
for the evil things they’ve done.
16You, Yahweh, are King forever and ever!
All the nations will perish from your land.
17Yahweh, you have heard the desires of the humble
and seen their hopes. # 10:17 The tenderhearted, compassionate God is able to hear our unspoken desires. What moves our hearts moves his heart. How kind is Yahweh!
You will hear their cries and encourage their hearts.
18The orphans and the oppressed will be terrified no longer,
for you will bring them justice, and no earth-dweller will trouble them again.
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10
ל Lamed
1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor:
Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
(מ Mem)
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,
And blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
(נ Nun)
4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts.
5His ways are always grievous; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved:
For I shall never be in adversity.
(ס Samek)
פ Pe
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
Under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:
ע Ain
In the secret places doth he murder the innocent: His eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den:
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
(צ Zade)
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself,
That the poor may fall by his strong ones.
11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:
He hideth his face; he will never see it.
ק Qoph
12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand:
Forget not the humble.
13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God?
He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
ר Resh
14Thou 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.
ש Shin
15Break thou the arm of the wicked
And the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16The LORD is King for ever and ever:
The heathen are perished out of his land.
ת Taw
17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble:
Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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