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Psalms 10

1 He complaineth of the fraud, rapine, tyrannie, and all kinds of wrong, which worldelie men use, assigning the cause thereof, that wicked men, being as it were drunken with worldelie prosperitie, and therefore setting apart all fear and reverence towards God, think they may do all things without controverting (opposition). 15 Therefore he calleth upon God to send some remedie against these desperate evils, 16 And at length comforteth him self with hope of deliverance.
1.Why standest thou far off, ô Lord, and hidest thee in adue time, even in affliction?
2.The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.
3.For the wicked hath bmade boast of his own heart's desire, and the covetous blesseth him self: he contemneth the Lord.
4.The wicked is so proud that he seketh not for God: he thinketh alwaies, There is no God.
5.His waies alwaie prosper: thy Judgements are high above his sight: therefore ^defieth he all his enemies.
6.He saieth in his heart, I shal ^never be moved, cnor be in danger.
7.His mouth is ful of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8.dHe lieth in wait in the villages: in the secret places doeth he murther the innocent: he eyes are bent against the poor.
9.He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lyon in his den: he lieth in wait to spoil the poor: he doeth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10.He crowcheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the epoor do fall by his might.
11.He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth awaie his face, and wil never see.
12.fArise, ô Lord God: lift up thine hand: forget not the poor.
13.Wherefore doeth the wicked contemn God? he saieth in his heart, Thou wilt not gregard.
14.Yet thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and wrong, that thou maiest htake it into thine hands: the poor committeth him self unto thee: for thou art the helper of the fatherless.
15.Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious: search his wickedness, and thou shalt find inone.
16.The Lord is King for ever & ever: the kheathen are destroyed forth of his land.
17.Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine ear to them,
18.lTo judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man ^cause to fear no more.

Notes

1-a.
So soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.
3-b.
The wicked man rejoices in his own lust, he boasts when he has that he would: he brags of his wit and wealth, and blesses himself, and thus blasphemes the Lord.
5-^.
Or, snuffs at.
6-^.
Or, not be moved because he was never in evil.
6-c.
The evil shal not touch me, Is. 28.15, or els he speaks thus because he never felt evil.
8-d.
He shows that the wicked have many means to hide their cruelty, and therefore ought more to be feared.
10-e.
By the hypocrisy of them that have authority the poor are devoured.
12-f.
He calls to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown that God must now help or never.
13-g.
Therefore you must needs punish this their blasphemy.
14-h.
To judge between the right and the wrong.
15-i.
For you have utterly destroyed him.
16-k.
The hypocrites, or such as live not after God's law, shall be destroyed.
18-^.
Or, destroy no more man upon the earth.
18-l.
God helps when man's help ceases.