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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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Psalm 10</span></h3><h3><span class="text">Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Why, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, do you stand far off?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>For the wicked boast of the desires of their heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">those greedy for gain curse and renounce the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>In the pride of their countenance the wicked say, “God will not seek it out”;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all their thoughts are, “There is no God.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Their ways prosper at all times;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your judgments are on high, out of their sight;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as for their foes, they scoff at them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>They think in their heart, “We shall not be moved;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">throughout all generations we shall not meet adversity.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Their mouths are filled with cursing and deceit and oppression;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">under their tongues are mischief and iniquity.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>They sit in ambush in the villages;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in hiding places they murder the innocent.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>they lurk in secret like a lion in its covert;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they lurk that they may seize the poor;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they seize the poor and drag them off in their net.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They stoop, they crouch,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the helpless fall by their might.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>They think in their heart, “God has forgotten,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he has hidden his face, he will never see it.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>Rise up, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; O God, lift up your hand;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">do not forget the oppressed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Why do the wicked renounce God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and say in their hearts, “You will not call us to account”?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>But you do see! Indeed you note trouble and grief,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">that you may take it into your hands;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the helpless commit themselves to you;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you have been the helper of the orphan.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Break the arm of the wicked and evildoers;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">seek out their wickedness until you find none.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is king forever and ever;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the nations shall perish from his land.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, you will hear the desire of the meek;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>to do justice for the orphan and the oppressed,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that those from earth may strike terror no more.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16130a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 10:18">Psalm 10:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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