Psalms 10:1 ←
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Psalms 10:2 ←
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalms 10:3 ←
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
Psalms 10:4 ←
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Psalms 10:5 ←
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Psalms 10:6 ←
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
Psalms 10:7 ←
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
Psalms 10:8 ←
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.
Psalms 10:9 ←
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.
Psalms 10:10 ←
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
Psalms 10:11 ←
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Psalms 10:12 ←
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Psalms 10:13 ←
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
Psalms 10:14 ←
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.
Psalms 10:15 ←
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
Psalms 10:16 ←
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
Psalms 10:17 ←
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalms 10:18 ←
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
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