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1 WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? | |
2 The wicked 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 desire, and blesseth 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. | |
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 be in adversity. | |
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. | |
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. | |
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. | |
10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by 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. | |
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 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 their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: | |
18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. | |
