1  Why standest thou afar off, O Lord?

Why hidest thou thyself ain times of trouble?

2  †The wicked in his pride doth bpersecute the poor:

cLet them be taken in the edevices that they have imagined.

3  For the wicked boasteth of his †heart’s desire,

And ||blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

4  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after dGod:

||God is not in all his ethoughts.

5  His ways are always grievous;

fThy judgments are far above out of his sight:

As for all his enemies, ghe puffeth at them.

6  hHe hath said in his heart, iI shall not be moved:

jFor I shall †never be in adversity.

7  jjHis mouth is full of cursing and †deceit and kfraud:

lUnder his tongue is mmischief and ||vanity.

8  He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages:

nIn the secret places doth he murder the innocent:

His eyes †are privily set against othe poor.

9  pHe lieth in wait †secretly qas a lion in his rden:

He lieth in wait to catch the poor:

He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into shis net.

10  †He croucheth, and thumbleth himself,

That othe poor may fall ||by his strong ones.

11  hHe hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten:

uHe hideth his face; xhe will never see it.