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10:1  Lord, why are you standing aloof and far away? Why do you hide when I need you the most?
10:2  Come and deal with all these proud and wicked men who viciously persecute the poor. Pour upon these men the evil they planned for others!
10:3  For these men brag of all their evil lusts; they revile God and congratulate those the Lord abhors, whose only goal in life is money.
10:4  These wicked men, so proud and haughty, seem to think that God is dead. They wouldn’t think of looking for him!
10:5  Yet there is success in everything they do, and their enemies fall before them. They do not see your punishment awaiting them.
10:6  They boast that neither God nor man can ever keep them down—somehow they’ll find a way!
10:7  Their mouths are full of profanity and lies and fraud. They are always boasting of their evil plans.
10:8  They lurk in dark alleys of the city and murder passersby.
10:9  Like lions they crouch silently, waiting to pounce upon the poor. Like hunters they catch their victims in their traps.
10:10  The unfortunate are overwhelmed by their superior strength and fall beneath their blows.
10:11  “God isn’t watching,” they say to themselves; “he’ll never know!”
10:12  O Lord, arise! O God, crush them! Don’t forget the poor or anyone else in need.
10:13  Why do you let the wicked get away with this contempt for God? For they think that God will never call them to account.
10:14  Lord, you see what they are doing. You have noted each evil act. You know what trouble and grief they have caused. Now punish them. O Lord, the poor man trusts himself to you; you are known as the helper of the helpless.
10:15  Break the arms of these wicked men. Go after them until the last of them is destroyed.
10:16  The Lord is King forever and forever. Those who follow other gods shall be swept from his land.
10:17  Lord, you know the hopes of humble people. Surely you will hear their cries and comfort their hearts by helping them.
10:18  You will be with the orphans and all who are oppressed, so that mere earthly man will terrify them no longer.