Why standest thou afar off, O \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**? why* hidest thou thyself* in times of trouble?
The wicked in his* pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom* the \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** abhorreth.
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:* God is* not in all his thoughts.
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are* far above out of his sight: as for* all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall* never be* in adversity.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is* mischief and vanity.
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.
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.
He croucheth, and* humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it*.
Arise, O \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it*.
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.
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man:* seek out his wickedness till* thou find none.
The \+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w** is* King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land.
\+w LORD|strong="H3068"\+w**, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.