Salmos 10

¹ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] inAs soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.times of trouble?

² The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

³ For the wickedThe wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth.

⁴ The wicked is so proude that hee seeketh not for God: hee thinketh alwayes, There is no God.

⁵ His wayes alway prosper: thy iudgements are hie aboue his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.

⁶ He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall]The evil will not touch me, (Isa_28:15) or else he speaks thus because he never felt evil.never [be] in adversity.

⁷ His mouth is full of cursing and deceite and fraude: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and iniquitie.

⁸ He shows that the wicked have many ways to hide their cruelty and therefore should be even more feared.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 lyeth in waite secretly, euen as a lyon in his denne: he lyeth in waite to spoyle the poore: he doeth spoyle the poore, when he draweth him into his net.

¹⁰ He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that theBy the hypocrisy of them who have authority the poor are devoured.poor may fall by his strong ones.

¹¹ He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will neuer see.

¹² He calls to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown that God must help now or never.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 notTherefore you must punish their blasphemy.require [it].

¹⁴ Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, toTo judge between the right and the wrong.requite [it] 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 [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou findFor you have utterly destroyed him.none.

¹⁶ The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: theThe hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.heathen are perished out of his land.

¹⁷ Lorde, thou hast heard the desire of the poore: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine eare to them,

¹⁸ God helps when man's help ceases.To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.