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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Why, O LORD, do you stand far away? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For the wicked boasts of the desires of his soul, and the one greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.” |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.” |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9he lurks in ambush like a lion in his thicket; he lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has hidden his face, he will never see it.” |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not call to account”? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But you do see, for you note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless commits himself; you have been the helper of the fatherless. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The LORD is king forever and ever; the nations perish from his land. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted; you will strengthen their heart; you will incline your ear |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more. |
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