Psalms 10 · Clearspring

The Perils of the Pilgrim

¹Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,+ ²Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.+ ³Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.+ ⁴The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' are all his devices.+ ⁵Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries--he puffeth at them.+ ⁶He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.+ ⁷Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,+ ⁸He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,+ ⁹He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.+ ¹⁰He is bruised--he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.+ ¹¹He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'+ ¹²Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.+ ¹³Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'+ ¹⁴Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.+ ¹⁵Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;+ ¹⁶Jehovah is king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!+ ¹⁷The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,+ ¹⁸To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress--man of the earth!+

The Perils of the Pilgrim

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