Psalm 10 Free Bible Version
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 Lord, why are you so distant? Why do you hide from me in times of trouble?
1 ¿POR qué estás lejos, oh Jehová, y te escondes en el tiempo de la tribulación?
2 The wicked chase down the poor with impunity. May they be trapped by the evil schemes they themselves invented.
2 Con arrogancia el malo persigue al pobre: serán cogidos en los artificios que han ideado.
3 For the wicked boast about what they want to do. They praise the greedy, but treat the Lord with contempt.
3 Por cuanto se alaba el malo del deseo de su alma, y bendice al codicioso, [á quien] Jehová aborrece.
4 The wicked are too proud to come to God. In all their thinking they never consider God.
4 El malo, por la altivez de su rostro, no busca [á Dios]: no hay Dios [en] todos sus pensamientos.
5 What they do always seems to go well. They're unaware of God's judgments. They ridicule all their enemies.
5 Sus caminos son viciosos en todo tiempo: tus juicios [los tiene] muy lejos de su vista: echa bocanadas en [orden á] todos sus enemigos.
6 They tell themselves, “Nothing bad is going to happen to me. I'll never be in trouble!”
6 Dice en su corazón: No seré movido en ningún tiempo, ni jamás [me alcanzará] el infortunio.
7 Their speech is full of cursing, lies, and threats; their tongues are always ready to spread trouble and cause evil.
7 Llena está su boca de maldición, y de engaños y fraude: debajo de su lengua, vejación y maldad.
8 They hide out in ambush in the villages, ready to kill innocent passers-by. They are always on the lookout for their next victim.
8 Está en las guaridas de las aldeas: en los escondrijos mata al inocente: sus ojos están acechando al pobre.
9 They lie in ambush like a lion ready to attack, ready to leap out from their hiding place to seize their victim. They capture the helpless, throwing a net over them.
9 Acecha en oculto, como el león desde su cama: acecha para arrebatar al pobre: arrebata al pobre trayéndolo á su red.
10 Their victims are knocked down, laid low. They fall under the strength of the wicked.
10 Encógese, agáchase, y caen en sus fuerzas muchos desdichados.
11 They tell themselves, “God won't notice. He's looking the other way. He won't ever see anything.”
11 Dice en su corazón: Dios está olvidado, ha encubierto su rostro; nunca lo verá.
12 Take a stand, Lord! Raise your hand to strike! Don't forget those who can't defend themselves.
12 Levántate, oh Jehová Dios, alza tu mano, no te olvides de los pobres.
13 Why do the wicked think they can treat God with such contempt? Why do they think that God won't make them accountable?
13 ¿Por qué irrita el malo á Dios? En su corazón ha dicho que no [lo] inquirirás.
14 But you do see the trouble and grief they cause. Take it into your own hands. The helpless trust in you; you defend the orphans.
14 Tú [lo] tienes visto: porque tú miras el trabajo, y la vejación, para vengar[le] por tu mano: á ti se acoge el pobre, tú eres el amparo del huérfano.
15 Destroy the power of the wicked, those evil people! Call each of them to account until there are none left!
15 Quebranta el brazo del malo: del maligno buscarás su maldad, hasta que ninguna halles.
16 Lord, you are King forever and ever! The nations will vanish from their lands.
16 Jehová, Rey eterno y perpetuo; de su tierra fueron destruídas las gentes.
17 Lord, you have heard the longing cries of those who are suffering. You will encourage them, for you will listen to them.
17 El deseo de los humildes oíste, oh Jehová: tú dispones su corazón, y haces atento tu oído;
18 You will defend the rights of orphans and the oppressed so that those who are mere human beings here on earth will never terrorize them again.
18 Para juzgar al huérfano y al pobre, á fin de que no vuelva más á hacer violencia el hombre de la tierra.
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)