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Chapter 10
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1
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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou
thyself in times of trouble? |
2
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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let
them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
3
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. |
4
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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will
not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. |
5
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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far
above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth
at them. |
6
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He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for
I shall never be in adversity. |
7
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud:
under his tongue is mischief and vanity. |
8
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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. |
9
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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. |
10
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He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may
fall by his strong ones. |
11
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth
his face; he will never see it. |
12
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Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not
the humble. |
13
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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said
in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. |
14
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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. |
15
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Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:
seek out his wickedness till thou find none. |
16
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The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are
perished out of his land. |
17
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LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou
wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to
hear: |
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To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the
man of the earth may no more oppress. |
