Psalms · 18 verses
Psalms 10
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The wicked man takes God’s silence for a settled fact; the poem promptly says God has regarded the trouble and sees it.
The man under his tonguevv. 1–11
The poem opens with the LORD apparently standing far off while the wicked man prospers in his own imagination. He boasts, blesses greed, reviles the LORD, and regards judgment as something happening at a great and harmless distance. His mouth is full already, but trouble and malice have been tucked under his tongue, ready for use. Near the villages he waits in ambush, looking for the innocent and helpless; then, with the confidence of a man who has mistaken delay for disappearance, he says that God has forgotten.
The hand that seesvv. 12–15
The poem now turns from describing the wicked man to calling on the LORD to rise and lift a hand for the helpless. The wicked man has renounced God because he expects no reckoning, but the answer is not an argument about visibility: God has regarded trouble and grief, sees the matter, and repays it by His hand. The victim entrusts himself to Him, and the fatherless has a helper. Then comes the blunt request that the wicked arm be broken and his wickedness called to account until none remains to be found.
A kingdom without ambushvv. 16–18
The final movement is shorter and steadier. The LORD is King forever, while nations perish from His land; the humble are heard, their hearts strengthened, and the fatherless and oppressed vindicated. The poem ends with the men of the earth no longer striking terror, which is a remarkably modest-sounding way to close a very large disturbance.
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Ps 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
Ps 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
Ps 10:3For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Ps 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
Ps 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
Ps 10:6He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
Ps 10:7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.
Ps 10:8He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
Ps 10:9He lies in wait like a lion in a thicket; he lurks to seize the oppressed; he catches the lowly in his net.
Ps 10:10They are crushed and beaten down; the helpless fall prey to his strength.
Ps 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
Ps 10:12Arise, O LORD! Lift up Your hand, O God! Do not forget the helpless.
Ps 10:13Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”
Ps 10:14But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
Ps 10:16The LORD is King forever and ever; the nations perish from His land.
Ps 10:17You have heard, O LORD, the desire of the humble; You will strengthen their hearts. You will incline Your ear,
Ps 10:18to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 310 passages were voted onto 18 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 2Psalms 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
- 17Psalms 145:19He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
- 172 Chronicles 34:27because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its people, and because you have humbled yourself before Me and have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- 1Psalms 22:1For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Doe of the Dawn.” A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have You forsaken me? Why are You so far from saving me, so far from my words of groaning?
- 2Psalms 36:11Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
- 17Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- 2Psalms 7:16His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
- 1Psalms 27:9Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- 2Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- 171 Peter 3:12For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
- 1Psalms 13:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- 12Micah 5:9Your hand will be lifted over your foes, and all your enemies will be cut off.
- 15Job 38:15Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- 15Psalms 37:17For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- 17Isaiah 65:24Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
- 2Psalms 31:18May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
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