011) Psalm 10
8.6.8.6
1 Why stand’st thou Lord a far? why hid’st thy self in times of strait?
2 In pride the wicked persecutes the poor afflicted weight: snare them in their contrived plots.
3 For of his hearts desire the wicked boasts, and covetous blesseth, stirring God’s ire.
4 The wicked one by reason of his countenances pride will not seek afterGod: not God so all his thoughts abide.
5 his ways do always bring forth grief, on high thy judgments be above his sight: his pressing foes puff at them all will he.
6 Within his heart he thus hath said, I moved shall not be: from aye to aye because Iam not in adversity.
7 His mouth with cursing filled is, deceits, and fallacy: under his tongue perverseness is, also iniquity.
8 In the close places of the towns he sits, in secret dens he slays the harmless: ‘gainst the poor slyly his eyes down bends.
9 He closely lurks as lion lurks in den, the poor to catch he lurks, and trapping them in’s net th’ afflicted poor doth snatch.
10 Down doth he crouch, and to the dust humbly he bows withal: that so a multitude of poor in his strong paws may fall.
11 He saith in heart, God hath forgot: he hides his face away, so that he will not see this thing unto eternal aye.