| Verse | |
| 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. |
| Verse | |
| 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. |