| 1 ¶ Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
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| 2 The wicked1 in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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| 3 For the wicked boasteth of his heart's2 desire, and blesseth3 the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
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| 4 The wicked, through the pride of his4 countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
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| 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
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| 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never5 be in adversity.
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| 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit6 and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.7
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| 8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are8 privily set against the poor.
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| 9 He lieth in wait secretly9 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.
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| 10 He10 croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by11 his strong ones.
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| 11 He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.
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| 12 ¶ Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.12
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| 13 Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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| 14 Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth13 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 heathen are perished out of his land.
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| 17 LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare14 their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
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| 18 To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.15
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