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¹ Why standest thou afarre off, O Lord? why hidest thou thy selfe in times of trouble? ² The wicked in his pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the deuices that they haue imagined. ³ For the wicked boasteth of his hearts desire, and blesseth the couetous, whom the Lord abhorreth. ⁴ The wicked through the pride of his countenance will not seeke after God: God is not in all his thoughts. ⁵ His wayes are alwayes grieuous, thy iudgements are farre aboue out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. ⁶ He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moued: for I shall neuer be in aduersitie. ⁷ His mouth is full of cursing, and deceit, and fraud: vnder his tongue is mischiefe and vanitie. ⁸ He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doeth he murder the innocent: his eyes are priuily set against the poore. ⁹ He lieth in waite secretly as a lyon in his denne, he lieth in wait to catch the poore: he doth catch the poore when he draweth him into his net. ¹⁰ He croucheth, and humbleth himselfe, that the poore may fall by his strong ones. ¹¹ Hee hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face, hee will neuer see it.

¹² Arise, O Lord, O God lift vp thine hand: forget not the humble. ¹³ Wherefore doeth the wicked contemne God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it. ¹⁴ Thou hast seene it, for thou beholdest mischiefe and spite to requite it with thy hand: the poore committeth himselfe vnto thee, thou art the helper of the fatherlesse. ¹⁵ Breake thou the arme of the wicked, and the euill man: seeke out his wickednes, till thou finde none. ¹⁶ The Lord is King for euer and euer: the heathen are perished out of his land. ¹⁷ Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine eare to heare, ¹⁸ To iudge the fatherlesse and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppresse.