# Psalms 10 [[Psalms 9|←]] • [[Psalms 11|→]] --- ### 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? hidest thou in times of trouble? ### 2 The wicked in pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ### 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, the Lord abhorreth. ### 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek God not in all his thoughts. ### 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments far above out of his sight: all his enemies, he puffeth at them. ### 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for never in adversity. ### 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue mischief and vanity. ### 8 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. ### 9 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. ### 10 He croucheth, humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. ### 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see ### 12 Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. ### 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require ### 14 Thou hast seen for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. ### 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil seek out his wickedness thou find none. ### 16 The Lord King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. ### 17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: ### 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.