1 - Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
2 - In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
3 - For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.
4 - The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, saith, He will not requireit. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
5 - His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
6 - He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
7 - His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 - 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 helpless.
9 - He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
10 - He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones.
11 - He saith in his heart: God hath forgotten; He hideth his face, he will never see it.
12 - Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor.
13 - Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not requireit?
14 - Thou hast seenit; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth himself unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.
15 - Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
16 - Jehovah is King for ever and ever: The nations are perished out of his land.
17 - Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear;
18 - To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
