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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Psalm 10 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/psalms/10.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/10.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/psalms/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Psalm 10</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/9.htm" title="Psalm 9">◄</a> Psalm 10 <a href="../psalms/11.htm" title="Psalm 11">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Why standest Thou afar off, O LORD?</div><div class="po2">Why hidest Thou Thyself in times of trouble?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Through the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued,</div><div class="po2">They are taken in the devices that they have imagined.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire,</div><div class="po2">And the covetous vaunteth himself, though he contemn the LORD.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The wicked, in the pride of his countenance [, saith]: ‘He will not require’;</div><div class="po2">All his thoughts are: ‘There is no God.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>His ways prosper at all times;</div><div class="po2">Thy judgments are far above out of his sight;</div><div class="po2">As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He saith in his heart: ‘I shall not be moved,</div><div class="po2">I who to all generations shall not be in adversity.’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression;</div><div class="po2">Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages;</div><div class="po2">In secret places doth he slay the innocent;</div><div class="po2">His eyes are on the watch for the helpless.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He lieth in wait in a secret place as a lion in his lair,</div><div class="po2">He lieth in wait to catch the poor;</div><div class="po2">He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him up in his net.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He croucheth, he boweth down,</div><div class="po2">And the helpless fall into his mighty claws.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He hath said in his heart: ‘God hath forgotten;</div><div class="po2">He hideth His face; He will never see.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up Thy hand;</div><div class="po2">Forget not the humble.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God,</div><div class="po2">And say in his heart: ‘Thou wilt not require’?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou hast seen; for Thou beholdest trouble and vexation, to requite them with Thy hand;</div><div class="po2">Unto Thee the helpless committeth himself;</div><div class="po2">Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Break Thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, search out his wickedness, till none be found.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The LORD is King for ever and ever;</div><div class="po2">The nations are perished out of His land.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>LORD, Thou hast heard the desire of the humble:</div><div class="po2">Thou wilt direct their heart, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to attend;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To right the fatherless and the oppressed,</div><div class="po2">That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../psalms/9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../psalms/11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/psalms/10-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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