Psalm 10
A Prayer for the
Overthrow of the Wicked |
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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD?
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Why hidest thou thyself in times of
trouble? |
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The wicked in his pride doth
persecute the poor:
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let them be taken in the devices that they have
imagined.
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's
desire,
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and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. |
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The wicked, through the pride of his
countenance,
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will not seek after God: |
God is not in all his thoughts.
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His ways are always grievous;
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thy judgments are far above out of his
sight: |
as for all his enemies, he puffeth at
them. |
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He hath said in his heart, I shall not be
moved:
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for I shall never be in adversity.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit Rom.
3.14 and fraud:
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under his tongue is mischief and
vanity. |
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He sitteth in the lurking places of the
villages:
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in the secret places doth he murder the
innocent: |
his eyes are privily set against the poor.
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He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in
his den:
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he lieth in wait to catch the poor: |
he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his
net.
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He croucheth, and humbleth
himself,
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that the poor may fall by his strong
ones. |
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He hath said in his heart, God hath
forgotten:
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he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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12 |
Arise, O LORD; O
God, lift up thine hand:
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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn
God?
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He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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Thou hast seen it; for thou
beholdest mischief and spite,
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to requite it with thy hand: |
the poor committeth himself unto thee; |
thou art the helper of the fatherless.
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Break thou the arm of the wicked and the
evil man:
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seek out his wickedness till thou find
none. |
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The LORD is King for ever and ever:
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the heathen are perished out of his land.
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LORD, thou hast
heard the desire of the humble:
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thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine
ear to
hear: |
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to judge the fatherless and the
oppressed,
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that the man of the earth may no more
oppress. |
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