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📚✭Why do you stand far off,O LORD?
Why do you hide yourself
in times of trouble?
2 📚✭The wicked in his pride
persecutes the poor.
Let them be taken in the schemes
they have devised.
3 📚✭For the wicked boasts
of his heart’s desire,
and praises the covetous,
whom the LORD abhors.
4 📚The wicked, in the pride✭
of his countenance,
will not seek God.
God is not in any of his thoughts✭.
5 📚✭His ways are always prosperous.
Your judgments are far above,
out of his sight.
As for all his enemies,
he snorts at them.
6 📚He has said in his heart,
“I will not be moved;
for I will never
be in distress”.
7 📚His mouth is full of cursing
and deceit and oppression.
Under his tongue are trouble
and evil.
8 📚He sits in ambush
in the villages;
in secret places he murders
the innocent.
In secret his eyes are fixed
on the poor.
9 📚He lies in wait secretly like
a lion in his den.
He lies in wait to catch the poor.
He catches the poor,
when he draws him
into his net.
10 📚He crouches, and lies low,
that the poor may fall by his strength.
11 📚✭He has said in his heart,
“God has forgotten.
He hides his face.
He will never see it”.
12 📚Arise✭, O LORD! O God,
lift up your hand!
Do not forget the humble.
13 📚Why does the wicked spurn God?
He has said in his heart,
“You will not require an account✭”.
14 📚✭You have seen it;
for you look at trouble
and sorrow to repay it
with your hand.
The poor commits himself to you.
You are the helper of the fatherless.
15 📚✭Break the arm of the wicked
and the evil man!
Search out his wickedness
until you find none.
16 📚The LORD is King✭
for ever and ever.
The nations have perished
from his land.
17 📚LORD, you have heard
the desire of the humble.
You will prepare their heart;
you will cause your ear to hear,
18 📚To execute justice for
the fatherless✭ and the oppressed,
so that the man of the earth
may no longer oppress.