| 1: Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou
thyself in times of trouble? |
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| 2: 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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| 4: The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not
seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. |
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| 5: 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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| 6: He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall
never be in adversity. |
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| 7: His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his
tongue is mischief and vanity. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 10: He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by
his strong ones. |
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| 11: He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his
face; he will never see it. |
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| 12: Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the
humble. |
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| 13: Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his
heart, Thou wilt not require it. |
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| 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. |
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| 15: Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out
his wickedness till thou find none. |
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| 16: The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished
out of his land. |
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| 17: 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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| 18: To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of
the earth may no more oppress. |
