Psalm 10:12-18

Christian Standard Bible

¹² Rise up, Lord God! Lift up your hand.^(A)
Do not forget the oppressed.^(B)
13 Why has the wicked person despised God?
He says to himself, “You will not demand an account.”^(C)
14 But you yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into your hands.^(D)
The helpless one entrusts himself to you;
you are a helper of the fatherless.^(E)
15 Break the arm of the wicked, evil person,^(F)
until you look for his wickedness,
but it can’t be found.^(G)

¹⁶ The Lord is King forever and ever;^(H)
the nations will perish from his land.^(I)
17 Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble;
you will strengthen their hearts.
You will listen carefully,^(J)
18 doing justice for the fatherless and the oppressed
so that mere humans from the earth may terrify them no more.^(K)