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Psalm 10 Bible in Basic English
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 Why do you keep far away, O Lord? why are you not to be seen in times of trouble?
1 Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.
2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
3 For the evil-doer is lifted up because of the purpose of his heart, and he whose mind is fixed on wealth is turned away from the Lord, saying evil against him.
3 For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy and condemns Yahweh.
4 The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
4 The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
5 His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.
5 His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.
6 He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.
6 He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
7 His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
8 He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
8 He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless.
9 He keeps himself in a secret place like a lion in his hole, waiting to put his hands on the poor man, and pulling him into his net.
9 He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless when he draws him in his net.
10 The upright are crushed and made low, and the feeble are overcome by his strong ones.
10 The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength.
11 He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.
11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”
12 Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
12 Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless.
13 Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?
13 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account”?
14 You have seen it; for your eyes are on sorrow and grief, to take it into your hand: the poor man puts his faith in you; you have been the helper of the child who has no father.
14 But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
15 Let the arm of the sinner and the evil-doer be broken; go on searching for his sin till there is no more.
15 Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
16 The Lord is King for ever and ever; the nations are gone from his land.
16 Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land.
17 Lord, you have given ear to the prayer of the poor: you will make strong their hearts, you will give them a hearing:
17 Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear,
18 To give decision for the child without a father and for the broken-hearted, so that the man of the earth may no longer be feared.
18 to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 22:1; Psalm 27:9; Psalm 13:1–3; Jeremiah 14:8; Psalm 44:24
- 2 Psalm 59:12; Psalm 36:11; Psalm 7:16; Proverbs 5:22; Psalm 31:18
- 3 Psalm 94:4; Luke 12:19; Zechariah 11:5–8; Micah 6:10–12; Job 31:24
- 4 Psalm 14:1–2; Romans 1:28; Acts 8:22; Genesis 6:5; Deuteronomy 8:14
- 5 Isaiah 26:11; Psalm 12:5; Hosea 14:9; Psalm 92:5–6; 1 Kings 20:10–11
- 6 Ecclesiastes 8:11; Matthew 24:48; Isaiah 56:12; Revelation 18:7; Psalm 11:1
- 7 Psalm 7:14; Psalm 140:9; Psalm 140:3; Psalm 59:12; Psalm 64:3
- 8 Habakkuk 3:14; Jeremiah 22:17; 1 Samuel 22:18; 1 Samuel 23:23; Psalm 17:11
- 9 Psalm 17:12; Psalm 59:3; Micah 7:2; Psalm 35:10; Amos 2:6–7
- 10 1 Samuel 18:21–26; 1 Samuel 23:21–22; 2 Samuel 15:5; 1 Samuel 2:36
- 11 Ezekiel 8:12; Psalm 94:7; Psalm 73:11; Psalm 10:6; Ezekiel 9:9
- 12 Micah 5:9; Psalm 94:2; Psalm 9:12; Psalm 17:7; Isaiah 33:10
- 13 Luke 10:16; Numbers 11:20; Psalm 74:18; 1 Thessalonians 4:8; 2 Chronicles 24:22
- 14 Psalm 68:5; Psalm 55:22; Psalm 146:9; Deuteronomy 10:18; 1 Peter 4:19
- 15 Psalm 37:17; Job 38:15; Zephaniah 1:12; Psalm 7:9; Ezekiel 30:21–22
- 16 Jeremiah 10:10; Psalm 29:10; 1 Timothy 1:17; Psalm 145:13; Deuteronomy 8:20
- 17 Psalm 145:19; 2 Chronicles 34:27; Psalm 34:15; 1 Peter 3:12; Isaiah 65:24
- 18 Psalm 9:9; Psalm 82:3; Isaiah 11:4; 1 Corinthians 15:47–48; Psalm 17:14
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The inscription of this Psalm is, "To the end for the hidden things of the Son, a Psalm of David himself." As to the hidden things of the Son there may be a question: but since he has not added whose, the very only-begotten Son of God should be understood.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
For, as our Scriptures say, "the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth." Away, then, with these deceitful masks, these deluding whitewashes, that things may be truthfully seen and scrutinized.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For, saith Scripture, "Through the multitude of his anger he will not seek" (after God). (Ps.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 11 (1889)