# Psalm 10 ## Psalm 10:1 - [KJV] Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? *why* hidest thou *thyself* in times of trouble? - [ASV] Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? - [YLT] Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity, ### Notes on Psalm 10:1 - ## Psalm 10:2 - [KJV] The wicked in *his* pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. - [ASV] In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived. - [YLT] Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised. ### Notes on Psalm 10:2 - ## Psalm 10:3 - [KJV] For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, *whom* the LORD abhorreth. - [ASV] For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, And the covetous renounceth, *yea*, contemneth Jehovah. - [YLT] Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah. ### Notes on Psalm 10:3 - ## Psalm 10:4 - [KJV] The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek *after God*: God *is* not in all his thoughts. - [ASV] The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, *saith*, He will not require *it*. All his thoughts are, There is no God. - [YLT] The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' *are* all his devices. ### Notes on Psalm 10:4 - ## Psalm 10:5 - [KJV] His ways are always grievous; thy judgments *are* far above out of his sight: *as for* all his enemies, he puffeth at them. - [ASV] His ways are firm at all times; Thy judgments are far above out of his sight: As for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. - [YLT] Pain do his ways at all times, On high *are* Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them. ### Notes on Psalm 10:5 - ## Psalm 10:6 - [KJV] He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for *I shall* never *be* in adversity. - [ASV] He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity. - [YLT] He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil. ### Notes on Psalm 10:6 - ## Psalm 10:7 - [KJV] His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue *is* mischief and vanity. - [ASV] His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. - [YLT] Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue *is* perverseness and iniquity, ### Notes on Psalm 10:7 - ## Psalm 10:8 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] 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 helpless. - [YLT] He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly, ### Notes on Psalm 10:8 - ## Psalm 10:9 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Psalm 10:9 - ## Psalm 10:10 - [KJV] He croucheth, *and* humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. - [ASV] He croucheth, he boweth down, And the helpless fall by his strong ones. - [YLT] He is bruised -- he boweth down, Fallen by his mighty ones hath the afflicted. ### Notes on Psalm 10:10 - ## Psalm 10:11 - [KJV] He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see *it*. - [ASV] He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it. - [YLT] He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.' ### Notes on Psalm 10:11 - ## Psalm 10:12 - [KJV] Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. - [ASV] Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thy hand: Forget not the poor. - [YLT] Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble. ### Notes on Psalm 10:12 - ## Psalm 10:13 - [KJV] Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require *it*. - [ASV] Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require *it*? - [YLT] Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.' ### Notes on Psalm 10:13 - ## Psalm 10:14 - [KJV] 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. - [ASV] Thou hast seen *it*; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth *himself* unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless. - [YLT] 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. ### Notes on Psalm 10:14 - ## Psalm 10:15 - [KJV] Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil *man*: seek out his wickedness *till* thou find none. - [ASV] Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none. - [YLT] Break the arm of the wicked and the evil, Seek out his wickedness, find none; ### Notes on Psalm 10:15 - ## Psalm 10:16 - [KJV] The LORD *is* King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. - [ASV] Jehovah is King for ever and ever: The nations are perished out of his land. - [YLT] Jehovah *is* king to the age, and for ever, The nations have perished out of His land! ### Notes on Psalm 10:16 - ## Psalm 10:17 - [KJV] LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: - [ASV] Jehovah, thou hast heard the desire of the meek: Thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; - [YLT] The desire of the humble Thou hast heard, O Jehovah. Thou preparest their heart; Thou causest Thine ear to attend, ### Notes on Psalm 10:17 - ## Psalm 10:18 - [KJV] To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. - [ASV] To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more. - [YLT] To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress -- man of the earth! ### Notes on Psalm 10:18 -