Psalms 10

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Why, LORD, do you stand at a distance and pay no heed to these troubled times?	1 Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
2 Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor; they trap them by their cunning schemes.	2 I trust in the Lord. How can you say to my soul, “Sojourn to the mountain, like a sparrow.”
3 The wicked even boast of their greed; these robbers curse and scorn the LORD.	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 In their insolence the wicked boast: "God doesn't care, doesn't even exist."	4 For they have destroyed the things that you have completed. But what has the just one done?
5 Yet their affairs always succeed; they ignore your judgment on high; they sneer at all who oppose 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 They say in their hearts, "We will never fall; never will we see misfortune."	6 The Lord questions the just and the impious. Yet he who loves iniquity, hates his own soul.
7 Their mouths are full of oaths, violence, and lies; discord and evil are under their tongues.	7 He will rain down snares upon sinners. Fire and brimstone and windstorms will be the portion of their cup.
8 They wait in ambush near towns; their eyes watch for the helpless. to murder the innocent in secret.	8 For the Lord is just, and he has chosen justice. His countenance has beheld equity.
9 They lurk in ambush like lions in a thicket, hide there to trap the poor, snare them and close the net.
10 The helpless are crushed, laid low; they fall into the power of the wicked,
11 Who say in their hearts, "God pays no attention, shows no concern, never bothers to look."
12 Rise up, LORD God! Raise your arm! Do not forget the poor!
13 Why should the wicked scorn God, say in their hearts, "God doesn't care"?
14 But you do see; you do observe this misery and sorrow; you take the matter in hand. To you the helpless can entrust their cause; you are the defender of orphans.
15 Break the arms of the wicked and depraved; make them account for their crimes; let none of them survive.
16 The LORD is king forever; the nations have vanished from God's land.
17 You listen, LORD, to the needs of the poor; you encourage them and hear their prayers.
18 You win justice for the orphaned and oppressed; no one on earth will cause terror again.