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Psalm 10:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

The wicked are too proud to turn to you or even think about you.

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The LORD saw how bad the people on earth were and that everything they thought and planned was evil.

They rejected God All-Powerful, feeling he was helpless,

Anyone who spreads gossip will be silenced, and no one who is conceited will be my friend.

You rescue the humble, but you put down all who are proud.

My heart tells me to pray. I am eager to see your face,

Sinners don't respect God; sin is all they think about.

Only a fool would say, “There is no God!” People like that are worthless! They are heartless and cruel and never do right.

Only evil people would say, “God Most High cannot know everything!”

“Who is this LORD and why should I obey him?” the king replied. “I refuse to let you and your people go!”

Evil people are proud and arrogant, but sin is the only crop they produce.

Some people are stuck-up and act like snobs;

If I have too much to eat, I might forget about you; if I don't have enough, I might steal and disgrace your name.

Those who are too proud or tell lies or murder,

When we see criminals commit crime after crime without being punished, it makes us want to start a life of crime.

When the LORD comes, everyone who is proud will be made humble, and the LORD alone will be honoured.

The look on your faces shows that you are sinful as Sodom, and you don't try to hide it. You are in for trouble, and you have brought it all on yourselves.

You hurry off to do wrong or murder innocent victims. All you think about is sin; you leave ruin and destruction wherever you go.

All day long I have reached out to stubborn and sinful people going their own way.

Now listen to what I say! Did I abandon you in the desert or surround you with darkness? You are my people, yet you have told me, “We'll do what we want, and we refuse to worship you!”

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

I'll search Jerusalem with lamps and punish those people who sit there unworried while thinking, “The LORD won't do anything, good or bad.”

If you humbly obey the LORD, then come and worship him. If you do right and are humble, perhaps you will be safe on that day when the LORD turns loose his anger.

Out of your heart come evil thoughts, vulgar deeds, stealing, murder,

Get rid of these evil thoughts and ask God to forgive you.

They know about God, but they don't honour him or even thank him. Their thoughts are useless, and their stupid minds are in the dark.

Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things.

At that time you did not know about Christ. You were foreigners to the people of Israel, and you had no part in the promises that God had made to them. You were living in this world without hope and without God,

But when all this happens, don't be proud! Don't forget that you were once slaves in Egypt and that it was the LORD who set you free.




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