10 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
² In the pride of the wicked ^[a]the poor ^[b]is hotly pursued;
^[c]Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,
And ^[d]the covetous renounceth, yea, ^[e]contemneth Jehovah.
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 ^[f]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 ^[g]oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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 ^[h]helpless.
⁹ He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
^10 [i]He croucheth, he boweth down,
And the ^[j]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 Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the ^[k]poor.
¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,
And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it?
¹⁴ Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest ^[l]mischief and spite, ^[m]to requite it with thy hand:
The ^[n]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 Jehovah is King for ever and ever:
The ^[o]nations are perished out of his land.
¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:
Thou wilt ^[p]prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,
That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.