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| Psalms 10:1 | Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? | Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble? |
| Psalms 10:2 | The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. | The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention. |
| Psalms 10:3 | For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. | For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him. |
| Psalms 10:4 | The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. | The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God. |
| Psalms 10:5 | His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. | His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him. |
| Psalms 10:6 | He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. | He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble. |
| Psalms 10:7 | His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. | His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts. |
| Psalms 10:8 | He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. | He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor. |
| Psalms 10:9 | He lieth in wait secretly 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. | He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net. |
| Psalms 10:10 | He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. | The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones. |
| Psalms 10:11 | He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. | He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it. |
| Psalms 10:12 | Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. | Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor. |
| Psalms 10:13 | Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. | Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it? |
| Psalms 10:14 | Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. | You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father. |
| Psalms 10:15 | Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. | Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more. |
| Psalms 10:16 | The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. | The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land. |
| Psalms 10:17 | LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: | Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing: |
| Psalms 10:18 | To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. | To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared. |
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