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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/psalms/10.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>A Song of Confidence in God’s Triumph over Evil</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-10-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Why do You stand afar off, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>?</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-1"><i>Why</i> do You hide in times of trouble?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The wicked in <i>his</i> pride <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>persecutes the poor;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-2">Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-3"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>He blesses the greedy <i>and</i> renounces the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek <i>God;</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-4"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>God <i>is</i> in none of his thoughts.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>His ways <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>are always prospering;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-5">Your judgments <i>are</i> far above, out of his sight;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-5"><i>As for</i> all his enemies, he sneers at them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He has said in his heart, “I shall not be moved;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-6">I shall never be in adversity.”</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-7">Under his tongue <i>is</i> trouble and iniquity.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He sits in the lurking places of the villages;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-8">In the secret places he murders the innocent;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-8">His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He lies in wait secretly, as a lion in his den;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-9">He lies in wait to catch the poor;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-9">He catches the poor when he draws him into his net.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>he crouches, he lies low,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-10">That the helpless may fall by his <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>strength.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He has said in his heart,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-11">“God has forgotten;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-11">He hides His face;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-11">He will never see.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Arise, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-12">O God, lift up Your hand!</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-12">Do not forget the humble.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Why do the wicked renounce God?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-13">He has said in his heart,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-13">“You will not require <i>an account.</i>”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But You have seen, for You observe trouble and grief,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-14">To repay <i>it</i> by Your hand.</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-14">The helpless commits<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span> himself to You;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-14">You are the helper of the fatherless.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Break the arm of the wicked and the evil <i>man;</i></span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-15">Seek out his wickedness <i>until</i> You find none.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> <i>is</i> King forever and ever;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-16">The nations have perished out of His land.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, You have heard the desire of the humble;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-17">You will prepare their heart;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-17">You will cause Your ear to hear,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/10-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-10-18">That the man of the earth may <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>oppress no more.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14044a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:2">Psalm 10:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>hotly pursues</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14045b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:3">Psalm 10:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>The greedy man curses and spurns the <span class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span></i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14046c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:4">Psalm 10:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>All his thoughts are, “There is no God”</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14047d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:5">Psalm 10:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>are strong</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14052e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:10">Psalm 10:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>he is crushed, is bowed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14052f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:10">Psalm 10:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>mighty ones</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14056g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:14">Psalm 10:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>leaves,</i> entrusts</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14060h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:18">Psalm 10:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>vindicate</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14060i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 10:18">Psalm 10:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>terrify</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div 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