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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 10
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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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He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
never be in adversity.
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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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He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
his strong ones.
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
face; he will never see it.
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Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
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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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The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out
of his land.
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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:
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To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the
earth may no more oppress.
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