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1 Why standest thou
afar off, O Jehovah?
Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 In the pride of the
wicked the poor is hotly pursued;
Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
3 For the wicked
boasteth of his heart's desire,
And the covetous renounceth, [yea], contemneth Jehovah.
4 The wicked, in the
pride of his countenance, [saith], He
will not require [it].
All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5 His ways are firm at
all times;
Thy judgments are far above out of his sight:
As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6 He saith in his heart,
I shall not be moved;
To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
7 His mouth is full of
cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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 helpless.
9 He lurketh in secret
as a lion in his covert;
He lieth in wait to catch the poor:
He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
10 He croucheth, he boweth
down,
And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
11 He saith in his
heart, God hath forgotten;
He hideth his face; he will never see it.
12 Arise, O Jehovah; O
God, lift up thy hand:
Forget not the poor.
13 Wherefore doth the
wicked contemn God,
And say 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 helpless committeth [himself] unto thee;
Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15 Break thou the arm of
the wicked;
And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find
none.
16 Jehovah is King for
ever and ever:
The nations are perished out of his land.
17 Jehovah, thou hast
heard the desire of the meek:
Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
18 To judge the
fatherless and the oppressed,
That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.