Reformation Directory

1.Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?

2.The wicked^10-1 in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

3.For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s^10-2 desire, and blesseth^10-3 the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.

4.The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.^10-4

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

6.He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never^10-5 be in adversity.

7.His mouth is full of cursing and deceit^10-6 and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity^10-7.

8.He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are^10-8 privily set against the poor.

9.He lieth in wait secretly^10-9 as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.

10.He^10-10 croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by^10-11 his strong ones.

11.He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

12.Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble^10-12.

13.Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

14.Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth^10-13 himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.

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

16.The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.

17.LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare^10-14 their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:

18.To judge the fatherless and the oppress^10-15ed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

Psalm 10

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