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Psalms 10

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Part of Book I📖 Psalms introduction

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1Why do you stand far off, Yahweh? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? ✦ 2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise. ✦ 3For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh. ✦ 4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God. ✦ 5His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them. ✦ 6He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.” ✦ 7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity. ✦ 8He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the helpless. ✦ 9He lurks in secret as a lion in his ambush. He lies in wait to catch the helpless. He catches the helpless, when he draws him in his net. ✦ 10The helpless are crushed. They collapse. They fall under his strength. ✦ 11He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.” ✦ 12Arise, Yahweh! God, lift up your hand! Don’t forget the helpless. ✦ 13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?” ✦ 14But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless. ✦ 15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none. ✦ 16Yahweh is King forever and ever! The nations will perish out of his land. ✦ 17Yahweh, you have heard the desire of the humble. You will prepare their heart. You will cause your ear to hear, ✦ 18to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that man who is of the earth may terrify no more. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 9 ·8Ps 94 ·5Isa 10 ·4Jas 4 ·4Rom 1 ·4Ps 140 ·4Ps 119 ·4Ps 17 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 10YouTube · Lay · Free

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 10David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 10Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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