12 Arise,(A) Lord! Lift up your hand,(B) O God.
    Do not forget the helpless.(C)
13 Why does the wicked man revile God?(D)
    Why does he say to himself,
    “He won’t call me to account”?(E)
14 But you, God, see the trouble(F) of the afflicted;
    you consider their grief and take it in hand.
The victims commit themselves to you;(G)
    you are the helper(H) of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked man;(I)
    call the evildoer to account for his wickedness
    that would not otherwise be found out.

16 The Lord is King for ever and ever;(J)
    the nations(K) will perish from his land.
17 You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;(L)
    you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,(M)
18 defending the fatherless(N) and the oppressed,(O)
    so that mere earthly mortals
    will never again strike terror.

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12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

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.

15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

16 The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

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12 Arise, O Lord!
O God, (A)lift up Your hand!
Do not forget the (B)humble.
13 Why do the wicked renounce God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account.

14 But You have (C)seen, for You observe trouble and grief,
To repay it by Your hand.
The helpless (D)commits[a] himself to You;
(E)You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break the arm of the wicked and the evil man;
Seek out his wickedness until You find none.

16 (F)The Lord is King forever and ever;
The nations have perished out of His land.
17 Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble;
You will prepare their heart;
You will cause Your ear to hear,
18 To [b]do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,
That the man of the earth may [c]oppress no more.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 10:14 Lit. leaves, entrusts
  2. Psalm 10:18 vindicate
  3. Psalm 10:18 terrify