Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? |
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The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. |
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For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. |
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The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. |
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His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. |
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. |
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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. |
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Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. |
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LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: |