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