1Why stand youⁱ afar off, O LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]? [why] hide youⁱ [yourself] in times of trouble?

2The wicked in [his] pride does persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3For the wicked boasts of his heart's desire, and blesses the covetous, [whom] the LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] abhors.

4The wicked, through the pride of his Countenance (Face, appearance; show favor), will not seek [after God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]]: God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] not in all his thoughts.

5His ways are always grievous; yourⁱ judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffs at them.

6He has said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.

7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

8He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.

9He lies in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to catch the poor: he does catch the poor, when he draws him into his net.

10He crouches, [and] humbles himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.

11He has said in his heart, God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has forgotten: he hides his face; he will never see [it].

12Arise, O LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate]; O God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], lift up yourⁱ hand: forget not the humble.

13For what reason does the wicked contemn (despise with mockery; show contempt) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]? he has said in his heart, youⁱ will not require [it].

14Youⁱ have seen [it]; for youⁱ behold mischief and spite (anger toward someone; grief), to requite (repay) [it] with yourⁱ hand: the poor commits himself unto youⁱ; youⁱ are the helper of the fatherless.

15Break youⁱ the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] youⁱ find none.

16Yehovah Melekh Olam! [Messiah Pre-Incarnate is King For Eternity]: the heathen are perished out of his land.

17LORD-Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate], youⁱ have heard the desire of the humble: youⁱ will prepare their heart, youⁱ will cause yourⁱ ear to hear:

18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.