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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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.
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.
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor ° may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

10:1 afar off. This is a “psalm of lament,” questioning in this first verse why God does not intervene to deliver His people from their troubles and from oppression by the ungodly.


10:2 wicked in his pride. Psalm 10:2-11 describes the wicked (or ungodly) man and his deeds. He is proud (Psalm 10:2), fawning (Psalm 10:3), atheistic in behavior (Psalm 10:4, 11), devious (Psalm 10:5,10-11), stubborn (Psalm 10:6), profane (Psalm 10:7), hurtful (Psalm 10:8) and deceptive (Psalm 10:9).


10:7 full of cursing. This verse was used by the Apostle Paul as he described the ungodly pagans of the ancient world (Romans 3:14).


10:12 lift up thine hand. Psalm 10:12-15 comprises the psalmist’s prayer that God would judge and punish the wicked.


10:16 The LORD is King. The last three verses of the psalm make a statement of faith that God will, indeed, make all things right in His own proper time.


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