KJV Psalms Chapter 10
1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? |why| hidest thou |thyself| in times of trouble? 2 The wicked in |his| 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, |whom| the LORD abhorreth. 4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek |after God|: God |is| not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments |are| far above out of his sight: |as for| all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for |I shall| never |be| in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue |is| 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, |and| 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 |it|. 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 |it|. 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. 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil |man|: seek out his wickedness |till| thou find none. 16 The LORD |is| 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.