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Psalm 10:2

Good News Translation (US Version)

The wicked are proud and persecute the poor; catch them in the traps they have made.

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Sin is on their lips; all their words are sinful; may they be caught in their pride! Because they curse and lie,

Do not let proud people attack me or the wicked make me run away.

So they are punished by their own evil and are hurt by their own violence.

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

Promise that you will help your servant; don't let the arrogant oppress me!

Silence those liars— all the proud and arrogant who speak with contempt about the righteous.

The proud have set a trap for me; they have laid their snares, and along the path they have set traps to catch me.

The proud, who do not obey your law, have dug pits to trap me.

The proud have told lies about me, but with all my heart I obey your instructions.

Then Azariah son of Hoshaiah and Johanan son of Kareah and all the other arrogant men said to me, “You are lying. The Lord our God did not send you to tell us not to go and live in Egypt.

The dead will stare and gape at you. They will ask, “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble?

You were determined to climb up to heaven and to place your throne above the highest stars. You thought you would sit like a king on that mountain in the north where the gods assemble.

How I hope that I shall be faithful in keeping your instructions!

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods, because he did this when the Egyptians treated the Israelites with such contempt.”

Yet you are still arrogant and refuse to let my people go.

That man never thought of being kind; he persecuted and killed the poor, the needy, and the helpless.




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