Psalms 10

King James Bible	Catholic Public Domain Bible
¹ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?	¹ Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.	² I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.	³ For behold, the sinners have bent their bow. They have prepared their arrows in the quiver, so as to shoot arrows in the dark at the upright of heart.
⁴ The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.	⁴ For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done?
⁵ His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.	⁵ The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord’s throne is in heaven. His eyes look upon the poor. His eyelids question the sons of men.
⁶ He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.	⁶ The Lord questions the just and the impious. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul.
⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.	⁷ He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup.
⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.	⁸ For the Lord is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity.
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 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.