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King James Bible

 

King James Bible

Youngs Literal Translation


10:1 Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,
10:2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
10:3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.
10:4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' `are' all his devices.
10:5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. Pain do his ways at all times, On high `are' Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.
10:6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.
10:7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue `is' perverseness and iniquity,
10:8 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. He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,
10:9 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. He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net.
10:10 He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted.
10:11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'
10:12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.
10:13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.'
10:14 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. Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave `it', Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.
10:15 Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none;
10:16 The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. Jehovah `is' king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land!
10:17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend,
10:18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth!