Psalm 10

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?

⁹Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

²How long must I wrestle in my soul, with sorrow in my heart each day? How long will my enemy dominate me?

⁸O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

²⁴Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?

²⁴Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

¹²By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

¹¹Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

¹⁶His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

²²The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

¹⁸May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

¹²²Ensure Your servant’s well-being; do not let the arrogant oppress me.

⁴They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.

¹⁹Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’

⁵whose buyers slaughter them without remorse. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be the Lord, for I am rich!’ Even their own shepherds have no compassion on them.

⁶For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the Lord, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

¹⁰Can I forget any longer, O house of the wicked, the treasures of wickedness and the short ephah, which is accursed?

¹¹Can I excuse dishonest scales or bags of false weights?

²⁴If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

⁶They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good.

²The Lord looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

²⁸Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

²²Repent, therefore, of your wickedness, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps He will forgive you for the intent of your heart.

⁵Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

¹⁴then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

²¹For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

¹¹O Lord, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!

⁵“For the cause of the oppressed and for the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says the Lord. “I will bring safety to him who yearns.”

⁹Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them. For the ways of the Lord are right, and the righteous walk in them but the rebellious stumble in them.

⁵How great are Your works, O Lord, how deep are Your thoughts!

⁶A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

¹⁰Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”

¹¹And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”

¹⁶ruin and misery lie in their wake,

¹¹When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

⁴⁸But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’

¹²“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

⁷As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

¹For the choirmaster. Of David. In the Lord I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!

⁵who lends his money without interest and refuses a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things will never be shaken.

¹⁴Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.

⁹May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.

³They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

¹²By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.

³who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

³⁴You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

¹⁴With his own spear You pierced his head, when his warriors stormed out to scatter us, gloating as though ready to secretly devour the weak.

¹⁷“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”

¹⁸So the king ordered Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests himself. On that day he killed eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

²³Observe and find out all the places where he hides. Then come back to me with certainty, and I will go with you. If he is in the land, I will search him out among all the clans of Judah.”

¹¹They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

¹²A worthless person, a wicked man, walks with a perverse mouth,

¹³winking his eyes, speaking with his feet, and pointing with his fingers.

¹²like a lion greedy for prey, like a young lion lurking in ambush.

³See how they lie in wait for me. Fierce men conspire against me for no transgression or sin of my own, O Lord.

²The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt one another with a net.

¹⁰All my bones will exclaim, “Who is like You, O Lord, who delivers the afflicted from the aggressor, the poor and needy from the robber?”

⁶This is what the Lord says: “For three transgressions of Israel, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of sandals.

⁷They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

⁵The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah

²¹“I will give her to David,” Saul thought, “so that she may be a snare to him, and the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” So Saul said to David, “For a second time now you can be my son-in-law.”

²²Then Saul ordered his servants, “Speak to David privately and tell him, ‘Behold, the king is pleased with you, and all his servants love you. Now therefore, become his son-in-law.’”

²¹“May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul, “for you have had compassion on me.

²²Please go and prepare further. Investigate and watch carefully where he goes and who has seen him there, for I am told that he is extremely cunning.

⁵Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.

³⁶And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

¹²“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The Lord does not see us; the Lord has forsaken the land.’”

⁷They say, “The Lord does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”

¹¹The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

⁶He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”

⁹He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land; the Lord does not see.’

⁵They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.

⁹Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.

²Rise up, O Judge of the earth; render a reward to the proud.

¹²For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

⁷Show the wonders of Your loving devotion, You who save by Your right hand those who seek refuge from their foes.

¹⁰“Now I will arise,” says the Lord. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.

⁹Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah

¹⁶Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”

²⁰but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the Lord, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

¹⁸Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

⁸Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

²²Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the Lord see this and call you to account.”

¹⁰How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

⁵A father of the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy habitation.

²²Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous be shaken.

⁹The Lord protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.

¹⁸He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.

¹⁹So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

³Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the Lord upholds the righteous.

¹⁵Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

¹²And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The Lord will do nothing, either good or bad.’

⁹Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

²¹“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

²²Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.

¹⁷Woe to the worthless shepherd, who deserts the flock! May a sword strike his arm and his right eye! May his arm be completely withered and his right eye utterly blinded!”

¹⁰But the Lord is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.

¹⁰The Lord sits enthroned over the flood; the Lord is enthroned as King forever.

¹⁷Now to the King eternal, immortal, and invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

¹³Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures through all generations. The Lord is faithful in all His words and kind in all His actions.

²⁰Like the nations that the Lord has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.

²⁶I hereby decree that in every part of my kingdom, men are to tremble in fear before the God of Daniel: For He is the living God, and He endures forever; His kingdom will never be destroyed, and His dominion will never end.

¹⁹He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

²⁷because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the Lord.

¹⁵The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.

¹²For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”

²⁴Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

⁴Delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

⁹The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

³Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

⁴but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.

⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.

⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so also are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.

¹⁴from such men, O Lord, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.

⁷Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay in helping them?

⁸I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”