Psalms 10
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?
1Unto the end. A psalm for David.
2Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, they are taken in the devices that they have imagined.
2In the Lord I put my trust: how then do you say to my soul: Get thee away from hence to the mountain like a sparrow?
3For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the LORD.
3For, lo, the wicked have bent their bow; they have prepared their arrows in the quiver; to shoot in the dark the upright of heart.
4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith: 'He will not require'; all his thoughts are: 'There is no God.'
4For they have destroyed the things which thou hast made: but what has the just man done?
5His ways prosper at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
5The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look on the poor man: his eyelids examine the sons of men.
6He saith in his heart: 'I shall not be moved, I who to all generations shall not be in adversity.'
6The Lord trieth the just and the wicked: but he that loveth iniquity hateth his own soul.
7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
7He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone and storms of winds shall be the portion of their cup.
8He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in secret places doth he slay the innocent; his eyes are on the watch for the helpless.
8For the Lord is just, and hath loved justice: his countenance hath beheld righteousness.
9He lieth in wait in a secret place as a lion in his lair, he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.
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10He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall into his mighty claws.
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11He hath said in his heart: 'God hath forgotten; He hideth His face; He will never see.'
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12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Thy hand; forget not the humble.
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13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart: 'Thou wilt not require'?
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14Thou hast seen; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand; unto Thee the helpless committeth himself; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
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15Break Thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.
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16The LORD is King for ever and ever; the nations are perished out of His land.
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17LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble: Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;
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18To right the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
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