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Psalms 10

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1Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? ✦ 2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. ✦ 3For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. ✦ 4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. ✦ 5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. ✦ 6He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. ✦ 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity. ✦ 8He 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. ✦ 9He 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. ✦ 10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. ✦ 11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. ✦ 12Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. ✦ 13Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. ✦ 14Thou 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. ✦ 15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none. ✦ 16The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land. ✦ 17LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: ✦ 18To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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

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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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