Psalms 10:1
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in (a) times of trouble? (a) As soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.... [ Continue Reading ]
Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in (a) times of trouble? (a) As soon as we enter into affliction, we think God should help us, but that is not always his due time.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the wicked (b) boasteth of his heart's desire, and blesseth the covetous, [whom] the LORD abhorreth. (b) The wicked man rejoices in his own lust he boasts when he has that he would; he brags of his wit and wealth and blesses himself and thus blasphemes the Lord.... [ Continue Reading ]
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] (c) never [be] in adversity. (c) The evil will not touch me, (Isaiah 28:15) or else he speaks thus because he never felt evil.... [ Continue Reading ]
(d) 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. (d) He shows that the wicked have many ways to hide their cruelty and therefore should be even more feared.... [ Continue Reading ]
He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the (e) poor may fall by his strong ones. (e) By the hypocrisy of them who have authority the poor are devoured.... [ Continue Reading ]
(f) Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. (f) He calls to God for help, because wickedness is so far overgrown that God must help now or never.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not (g) require [it]. (g) Therefore you must punish their blasphemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast seen [it]; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to (h) requite [it] with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless. (h) To judge between the right and the wrong.... [ Continue Reading ]
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil [man]: seek out his wickedness [till] thou find (i) none. (i) For you have utterly destroyed him.... [ Continue Reading ]
The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the (k) heathen are perished out of his land. (k) The hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.... [ Continue Reading ]
(l) To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress. (l) God helps when man's help ceases.... [ Continue Reading ]