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Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble (10:1)

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined (10:2)

For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth (10:3)

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts (10:4)

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them (10:5)

He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity (10:6)

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity (10:7)

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 (10:8)

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 (10:9)

He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones (10:10)

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it (10:11)

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble (10:12)

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it (10:13)

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 (10:14)

Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none (10:15)

The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land (10:16)

Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear (10:17)

To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress (10:18)

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