Psalm 10 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?\par\tab Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

² In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued;\par\tab Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

³ For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire,\par\tab And the covetous renounceth, {\i yea}, contemneth Jehovah.

⁴ The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, {\i saith},\par\tab He will not require {\i it}.\par\tab All his thoughts are,\par\tab There is no God.

⁵ His ways are firm at all times;\par\tab Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:\par\tab As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.

⁶ He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved;\par\tab To all generations I shall not be in adversity.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:\par\tab Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

⁸ He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;\par\tab In the secret places doth he murder the innocent;\par\tab His eyes are privily set against the helpless.

⁹ He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert;\par\tab He lieth in wait to catch the poor:\par\tab He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth, he boweth down,\par\tab And the helpless fall by his strong ones.

¹¹ He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten;\par\tab He hideth his face; he will never see it.

¹² Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand:\par\tab Forget not the poor.

¹³ Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,\par\tab And say in his heart,\par\tab Thou wilt not require {\i it}?

¹⁴ Thou hast seen {\i it}; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand:\par\tab The helpless committeth {\i himself} unto thee;\par\tab Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

¹⁵ Break thou the arm of the wicked;\par\tab And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

¹⁶ Jehovah is King for ever and ever:\par\tab The nations are perished out of his land.

¹⁷ Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek:\par\tab Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;

¹⁸ To judge the fatherless and the oppressed,\par\tab That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.\par