Psalms 10:1-13 ▼

1 Why, YHWH, do You stand at a distance? Do You hide in times of adversity?

2 Through the pride of the wicked, || Is the poor inflamed, || They are caught in schemes that they devised.

3 Because the wicked has boasted || Of the desire of his soul, || And he has blessed a dishonest gainer, || He has despised YHWH.

4 The wicked does not inquire according to the height of his face. “There is no God!” [are] all his schemes.

5 His ways writhe at all times, || Your judgments [are] on high before him, || All his adversaries—he puffs at them.

6 He has said in his heart, “I am not moved, || [And am] not in calamity to generation and generation.”

7 His mouth is full of oaths, || And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity,

8 He sits in an ambush of the villages, || He slays the innocent in secret places. His eyes secretly watch for the afflicted,

9 He lies in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lies in wait to catch the poor, || He catches the poor, drawing him into his net.

10 He is bruised—he bows down, || The afflicted has fallen by his mighty ones.

11 He said in his heart, “God has forgotten, || He has hid His face, || He has never seen.”

12 Arise, O YHWH! O God, lift up Your hand! Do not forget the humble.

13 Why has the wicked despised God? He has said in his heart, “It is not required.”