10 Why standest Thou afar off, O Lord? Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?

² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor; let them be caught in the devices that they have contrived.

³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous whom the Lord abhorreth.

⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.

⁵ His ways are always grievous; Thy judgments are far above, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.

⁶ He hath said in his heart, “I shall not be moved, for I shall never be in adversity.”

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages; in secret places doth he murder the innocent; his eyes are privily set against the poor.

⁹ He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den; he lieth in wait to catch the poor; he doth catch the poor when he draweth him into his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹ He hath said 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 humble.

¹³ Why doth the wicked contemn God? He hath said in his heart, “Thou wilt not keep account.”

¹⁴ But 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 until Thou find none.

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever; the heathen have 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.

11 In the Lord I put my trust; how say ye to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain,

² for lo, the wicked bend their bow and make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart;

³ if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple! The Lord’S throne is in heaven! His eyes behold; His eyelids test the children of men!

⁵ The Lord trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence, His soul hateth.

⁶ Upon the wicked He shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; His countenance doth behold the upright.

12 Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

² They speak vanity every one with his neighbor; with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

³ The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things,

⁴ who have said, “With our tongue, we will prevail; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?”

⁵ “For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise,” saith the Lord; “I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.”

⁶ The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

⁷ Thou shalt keep them, O Lord; Thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.

⁸ The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

19 And it came to pass that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus; and finding certain disciples,

² he said unto them, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost, having believed?” And they said unto him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is any Holy Ghost.”

³ And he said unto them, “Unto what then were ye baptized?” And they said, “Unto John’s baptism.”

⁴ Then said Paul, “John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe in Him who should come after him, that is, in Christ Jesus.”

⁵ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

⁶ And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

⁷ And there were about twelve men in all.

⁸ And he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading about the things concerning the Kingdom of God.

⁹ But when divers ones were hardened and believed not, but spoke evil of that Way before the multitude, he departed from them and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

¹⁰ And this continued for the space of two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the Word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

¹¹ And God wrought special miracles by the hands of Paul,

¹² so that handkerchiefs or aprons from his body were brought unto the sick, and the diseases departed from them and the evil spirits went out of them.

¹³ Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took it upon themselves to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.”

¹⁴ And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew and chief of the priests, who did so.

¹⁵ And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are ye?”

¹⁶ And the man in whom the evil spirit dwelt leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

¹⁷ And this became known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling in Ephesus, and fear fell on them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.

¹⁸ And many who believed came, and confessed, and showed their deeds.

¹⁹ Many of those also who used occult arts brought their books together and burned them before all men; and they counted up the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

²⁰ So the Word of God grew mightily and prevailed.