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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.

¹⁴And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
¹⁵How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
¹⁶And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
¹⁷Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
¹⁸And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
¹⁹And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet.
²⁰And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
²¹Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
²²And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
²³And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
²⁴Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.
²⁵Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up unto mount Hor:
²⁶And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son: and Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, and shall die there.
²⁷And Moses did as the Lord commanded: and they went up into mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
²⁸And Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them upon Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there in the top of the mount: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mount.
²⁹And when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, they mourned for Aaron thirty days, even all the house of Israel.

⁶⁷And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
⁶⁸Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
⁶⁹And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
⁷⁰As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:
⁷¹That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
⁷²To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
⁷³The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
⁷⁴That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
⁷⁵In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
⁷⁶And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
⁷⁷To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
⁷⁸Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,
⁷⁹To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
⁸⁰And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.