PSALMS 10
1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth the LORD.
4 The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not require it. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5 His ways are firm at all times; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved: to all generations I shall not be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the covert places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the helpless.
9 He lurketh in the covert as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
10 He croucheth, he boweth down, and the helpless fall by his strong ones.
11 He saith 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 poor.
13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, and say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
14 Thon hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to take it into thy hand: the helpless committeth himself unto thee; thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of the wicked; and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the nations are perished out of his land.
17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man which is of the earth may be terrible no more.
Cross-references
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- 1Psa 22:1, Psa 27:9, Psa 13:1–3, Psa 46:1, Job 13:24, Jer 14:8, Psa 44:24, Psa 88:14
- 2Psa 59:12, Psa 36:11, Psa 7:16, Pro 5:22, Psa 31:18, Psa 119:122, Psa 140:5, Isa 10:12–13
- 3Psa 94:4, Luk 12:19, Zec 11:5–8, Mic 6:10–12, Deu 29:19, Psa 49:6, Isa 37:23, Psa 5:6
- 4Psa 14:1–2, Rom 1:28, Act 8:22, Gen 6:5, Rom 1:21, Deu 8:14, Job 22:17, Psa 53:1
- 5Isa 26:11, Psa 92:5–6, Psa 12:5, Hos 14:9, Pro 15:24, 2Sa 5:6, 1Ki 20:10–11, Hos 9:9
- 6Ecc 8:11, Isa 56:12, Mat 24:48, 1Th 5:3, Psa 14:1, Rev 18:7, Psa 15:5, Nam 1:10
- 7Psa 7:14, Psa 140:9, Psa 140:3, Psa 59:12, Psa 64:3, Jas 3:6–8, Pro 21:6, Psa 144:11
- 8Hab 3:14, Jer 22:17, 1Sa 22:18, 1Sa 23:23, Pro 1:11–12, Luk 8:1, Pro 6:12–13, 2Ki 21:16
- 9Psa 17:12, Psa 59:3, Mic 7:2, Psa 35:10, Amo 3:4, Isa 3:15, Amo 5:11–12, Nam 2:11–12
- 101Sa 18:21–26, 1Sa 23:21–22, 1Sa 2:36, 2Sa 15:5
- 11Ezk 8:12, Psa 94:7, Psa 73:11, Psa 10:6, Ezk 9:9, Ecc 8:11, Psa 64:5, Mrk 2:6
- 12Mic 5:9, Psa 9:12, Psa 94:2, Psa 17:7, Isa 33:10, Psa 3:7, Psa 77:9, Isa 26:11
- 13Luk 10:16, 1Th 4:8, Psa 74:10, Psa 74:18, 2Ch 24:22, 2Sa 12:9–10, Num 11:20, Gen 9:5
- 14Psa 68:5, Psa 55:22, Psa 146:9, Deu 10:18, 1Pe 4:19, Hos 14:3, Jer 49:11, Jer 16:17
- 15Job 38:15, Psa 37:17, Zep 1:12, Psa 7:9, Ezk 30:21–22, Zec 11:17, Jer 2:34, Ezk 23:48
- 16Jer 10:10, Psa 29:10, 1Ti 1:17, Dan 4:34, Psa 145:13, Dan 6:26, Deu 8:20, Psa 18:43–45
- 17Psa 145:19, 2Ch 34:27, Psa 34:15, 1Pe 3:12, Isa 65:24, Psa 37:4, Jas 1:16–17, Psa 9:12
- 18Psa 9:9, Psa 82:3, Isa 11:4, Luk 18:7–8, Psa 17:14, 1Co 15:47–48, Psa 94:1–6, Psa 72:4
Topics in this chapter
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Afflictions and Adversities, Blasphemy, Blindness, Character, Children, Confidence, Countenance, Covetousness, Deceit, Falsehood, God, Godlessness, Heart, Homicide, Humility, Impenitence, Infidelity, Judgments, Lion, Malice, Net, Oppression, Orphan, Poor, Prayer, Pride, Psalms, Quotations and Allusions, Retaliation, Rulers, Security, Self-Delusion, Self-Righteousness, Sin, Speaking, Vanity, Wicked (People)