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| [1]WHY standest thou afar off, O LORD? and witholdest thy care in times of trouble? |
[1]In finem. Psalmus David. |
| [2]The pride of the wicked maketh the poor to suffer; let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. |
[2]In Domino confido; quomodo dicitis animæ meæ: Transmigra in montem sicut passer? |
| [3]For the ungodly boasts of his own desire, and the LORD is angry when the wicked is blessed. |
[3]Quoniam ecce peccatores intenderunt arcum; paraverunt sagittas suas in pharetra, ut sagittent in obscuro rectos corde; |
| [4]The wicked in the pride of his countenance will not seek after God; and there is no God in all his thoughts. |
[4]quoniam quæ perfecisti destruxerunt; justus autem quid fecit? |
| [5]His ways are always weak; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he despises them. |
[5]Dominus in templo sancto suo; Dominus in cælo sedes ejus. Oculi ejus in pauperem respiciunt, palpebræ ejus interrogant filios hominum. |
| [6]He says in his heart, I shall not be moved from generation to generation; for he conceives evil. |
[6]Dominus interrogat justum et impium; qui autem diligit iniquitatem, odit animam suam. |
| [7]His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and deceit. |
[7]Pluet super peccatores laqueos; ignis et sulphur, et spiritus procellarum, pars calicis eorum. |
| [8]He sits in the lurking place of a den; and in a secret place does he murder the innocent; his eyes spy on the destitute. |
[8]Quoniam justus Dominus, et justitias dilexit: æquitatem vidit vultus ejus. |
| [9]He lies in wait to snare the poor by drawing him into his net. |
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| [10]He shall be humbled and overthrown, and in his bones there shall be sickness and pain. |
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| [11]He says in his heart, God has forgotten; he has turned away his face; he will never see it. |
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| [12]Arise, O LORD; O my God, lift up thine hand; forget not the afflicted. |
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| [13]Why does the wicked provoke God? He says in his heart, God does not seek vengeance. |
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| [14]Thou hast seen it; for there is mischief and wrath, for thou beholdest that he hath surrendered himself unto thy hands; and 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 Gentiles are perished out of his land. |
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| [17]LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the poor; thine ear hath heard the preparation of their heart; |
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| [18]Execute justice to the fatherless and to the afflicted, so that man may not be destroyed from the face of the earth. |
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