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Psalm 10

¹Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
²The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
³For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
⁴The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
⁵His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
⁶He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity.
⁷His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
⁸He 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.
⁹He 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.
¹⁰He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
¹¹He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
¹²Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
¹³Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
¹⁴Thou 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.
¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
¹⁶The Lord is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
¹⁷Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
¹⁸To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.

²⁷Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.
²⁸Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.
²⁹Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
³⁰Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
³¹Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
³²For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.
³³The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
³⁴Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
³⁵The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

¹⁴For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
¹⁵Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
¹⁶That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
¹⁷That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
¹⁸May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
²⁰Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
²¹Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.