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| [1]Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, |
[1]The title of the tenthe salm. To the victorie of Dauid. |
| [2]Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised. |
[2]I triste in the Lord; hou seien ye to my soule, Passe thou ouere in to an hil, as a sparowe doith? |
| [3]Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah. |
[3]For lo! synneris han bent a bouwe; thei han maad redi her arowis in an arowe caas; `for to schete in derknesse riytful men in herte. |
| [4]The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. `God is not!' [are] all his devices. |
[4]For thei han distryed, whom thou hast maad perfit; but what dide the riytful man? |
| [5]Pain do his ways at all times, On high [are] Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them. |
[5]The Lord is in his hooli temple; he is Lord, his seete is in heuene. Hise iyen biholden on a pore man; hise iyelidis axen the sones of men. |
| [6]He hath said in his heart, `I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil. |
[6]The Lord axith a iust man, and vnfeithful man; but he, that loueth wickidnesse, hatith his soule. |
| [7]Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue [is] perverseness and iniquity, |
[7]He schal reyne snaris on `synful men; fier, brymston, and the spirit of tempestis ben the part of the cuppe of hem. |
| [8]He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, |
[8]For the Lord is riytful, and louede riytfulnessis; his cheer siy equite, `ethir euennesse. |
| [9]He lieth in wait in a secret place, as a lion in a covert. He lieth in wait to catch the poor, He catcheth the poor, drawing him into his net. |
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| [10]He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted. |
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| [11]He said in his heart, `God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.' |
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| [12]Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble. |
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| [13]Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, `It is not required.' |
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| [14]Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave [it], Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper. |
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| [15]Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none; |
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| [16]Jehovah [is] king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land! |
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| [17]The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend, |
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| [18]To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth! |
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