10Psalms 10

PSAL. X. / 1 Dauid complaineth to God of the outrage of the wicked. 12 He prayeth for remedie. 16 He professeth his confidence.

1Why standest thou afarre off, O Lord? why hidest thou thy selfe in times of trouble?Select Psalms 10:1

2The wicked in his pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the deuices that they haue imagined.Select Psalms 10:2

3For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire, and blesseth the couetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.Select Psalms 10:3

4The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seeke after God: God is not in all his thoughts.Select Psalms 10:4

5His wayes are alwayes grieuous, thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.Select Psalms 10:5

6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moued: for I shall neuer be in aduersitie.Select Psalms 10:6

7His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and vanitie.Select Psalms 10:7

8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doeth he murder the innocent: his eyes are priuily set against the poore.Select Psalms 10:8

9He lieth in waite secretly as a lyon in his denne, he lieth in wait to catch the poore: he doth catch the poore when he draweth him into his net.Select Psalms 10:9

10He croucheth, and humbleth himselfe, that the poore may fall by his strong ones.Select Psalms 10:10

11Hee hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face, hee will neuer see it.Select Psalms 10:11

12Arise, O Lord, O God lift vp thine hand: forget not the humble.Select Psalms 10:12

13Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.Select Psalms 10:13

14Thou hast seene it, for thou beholdest mischiefe and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherlesse.Select Psalms 10:14

15Breake thou the arme of the wicked, and the euill man: seeke out his wickednes, till thou finde none.Select Psalms 10:15

16The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are perished out of his land.Select Psalms 10:16

17Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine eare to heare,Select Psalms 10:17

18To iudge the fatherlesse and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppresse.Select Psalms 10:18