1
Why
standest
thou
afar
off,
O
LORD?
[why]
hidest
thou
[thyself]
in
times
of
trouble?
2
The
wicked
in
[his]
pride
doth
persecute
the
poor:
let
them
be
taken
in
the
devices
that
they
have
imagined.
3
For
the
wicked
boasteth
of
his
heart’s
desire,
and
blesseth
the
covetous,
[whom]
the
LORD
abhorreth.
4
The
wicked,
through
the
pride
of
his
countenance,
will
not
seek
[after
God]:
God
[is]
not
in
all
his
thoughts.
5
His
ways
are
always
grievous;
thy
judgments
[are]
far
above
out
of
his
sight:
[as
for]
all
his
enemies,
he
puffeth
at
them.
6
He
hath
said
in
his
heart,
I
shall
not
be
moved:
for
[I
shall]
never
[be]
in
adversity.
7
His
mouth
is
full
of
cursing
and
deceit
and
fraud:
under
his
tongue
[is]
mischief
and
vanity.
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
poor.
9
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.
10
He
croucheth,
[and]
humbleth
himself,
that
the
poor
may
fall
by
his
strong
ones.
11
He
hath
said
in
his
heart,
God
hath
forgotten:
he
hideth
his
face;
he
will
never
see
[it].
12
Arise,
O
LORD;
O
God,
lift
up
thine
hand:
forget
not
the
humble.
13
Wherefore
doth
the
wicked
contemn
God?
he
hath
said
in
his
heart,
Thou
wilt
not
require
[it].
14
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.
15
Break
thou
the
arm
of
the
wicked
and
the
evil
[man]:
seek
out
his
wickedness
[till]
thou
find
none.
16
The
LORD
[is]
King
for
ever
and
ever:
the
heathen
are
perished
out
of
his
land.
17
LORD,
thou
hast
heard
the
desire
of
the
humble:
thou
wilt
prepare
their
heart,
thou
wilt
cause
thine
ear
to
hear:
18
To
judge
the
fatherless
and
the
oppressed,
that
the
man
of
the
earth
may
no
more
oppress.