Psalm 9:13–10:6

13  Be gracious unto me, O Jehovah; consider mine affliction from them that hate me, lifting me up from the gates of death: 14  That I may declare all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion. I will be joyful in thy salvation. 15  The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid is their own foot taken. 16  Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. 17  The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forget God. 18  For the needy one shall not be forgotten alway; the hope of the meek shall not perish for ever. 19  Arise, Jehovah; let not man prevail: let the nations be judged in thy sight. 20  Put them in fear, Jehovah: that the nations may know themselves to be but men. Selah.

Psalm 10

1  Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? Why hidest thou thyself in times of distress? 2  The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined. 3  For the wicked boasteth of his soul’s desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah. 4  The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God! 5  His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them. 6  He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; from generation to generation I shall be in no adversity.