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| [1]Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction? |
[1]Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, even in affliction? |
| [2]While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine. |
[2]The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined. |
| [3]Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself. |
[3]For the wicked hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and the covetous blesseth himself: he contemneth the Lord. |
| [4]The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him. |
[4]The wicked is so proud that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God. |
| [5]His ways are profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies. |
[5]His ways alway prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies. |
| [6]For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation. |
[6]He saith in his heart, I shall never be moved, nor be in danger. |
| [7]Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain. |
[7]His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. |
| [8]He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are set against the poor. |
[8]He lieth in wait in the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poor. |
| [9]He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare. |
[9]He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to spoil the poor: he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net. |
| [10]He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor. |
[10]He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poor do fall by his might. |
| [11]For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look. |
[11]He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will never see. |
| [12]Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor. |
[12]Arise, O Lord God: lift up thine hand: forget not the poor. |
| [13]Wherefore, has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it. |
[13]Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard. |
| [14]Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan. |
[14]Yet thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine hands: the poor committeth himself unto thee : for thou art the helper of the fatherless. |
| [15]Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found. |
[15]Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious: search his wickedness, and thou shalt find none. |
| [16]The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out his land. |
[16]The Lord is King forever and ever: the heathen are destroyed forth of his land. |
| [17]The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart; |
[17]Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine ear to them, |
| [18]to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth. |
[18]To judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man cause to fear no more. |