Psalm 10:12-18

Common English Bible

¹² Get up, Lord!
    Get your fist ready, God!
    Don’t forget the ones who suffer!
¹³ Why do the wicked reject God?
    Why do they think to themselves
        that you won’t find out?
¹⁴ But you do see!
    You do see troublemaking and grief,
    and you do something about it!
The helpless leave it all to you.
    You are the orphan’s helper.

¹⁵ Break the arms of those
    who are wicked and evil.
Seek out their wickedness
    until there’s no more to find.
¹⁶ The Lord rules forever and always!
    The nations will vanish from his land.

¹⁷ Lord, you listen to the desires of those who suffer.
    You steady their hearts;
you listen closely to them,
¹⁸     to establish justice
        for the orphan and the oppressed,
    so that people of the land
        will never again be terrified.