| Chapter 10 |
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Why, Yehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, |
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Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised. |
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Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Yehovah. |
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The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!` are all his devices. |
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Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them. |
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He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,` To generation and generation not in evil. |
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Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity, |
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He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, |
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He 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. |
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He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted. |
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He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.` |
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Arise, O Yehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble. |
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Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.` |
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Thou 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. |
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Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none; |
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Yehovah is king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land! |
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The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Yehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend, |
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To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth! |