תהלים 10:2

Hebrew Modern Translation

בגאות רשע ידלק עני יתפשו במזמות זו חשבו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
רשע ידלק עני יתפשו במזמות זו חשבו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
בְּגַאֲוַ֣ת רָ֭שָׁע יִדְלַ֣ק עָנִ֑י יִתָּפְשׂ֓וּ ׀ בִּמְזִמֹּ֖ות ז֣וּ חָשָֽׁבוּ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
בְּגַאֲוַת רָשָׁע יִדְלַק עָנִי יִתָּפְשׂוּ ׀ בִּמְזִמּוֹת זוּ חָשָֽׁבוּ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

The wicked: etc. Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth, etc. Psalms 31:18, Psalms 36:11, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 119:5, Psalms 119:69, Psalms 119:85, Psalms 119:122, Psalms 140:5, Exodus 9:17, Exodus 18:11, Isaiah 10:12, Isaiah 10:13, Isaiah 14:13, Isaiah 14:16, Jeremiah 43:2

let: Psalms 7:16, Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16, Proverbs 5:22

Reciprocal: Exodus 1:10 - Come on Numbers 31:8 - Balaam 1 Kings 18:10 - whither my lord Psalms 7:15 - and is Psalms 11:2 - lo Psalms 21:11 - imagined Psalms 31:20 - from Psalms 52:1 - boastest Psalms 58:9 - as Psalms 73:8 - speak wickedly Psalms 94:4 - boast Psalms 101:5 - an high Psalms 109:16 - persecuted Proverbs 11:27 - he that seeketh Proverbs 26:27 - diggeth Isaiah 38:17 - thou hast cast Habakkuk 1:13 - wherefore Mark 4:38 - carest 1 Thessalonians 1:5 - but James 2:6 - Do

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor,.... The "poor" is the good and gracious man, who is commonly poor in this world's things, and is sensibly poor in spirit, or sensible of his spiritual poverty; or he is so called because "afflicted", as the word signifies; and he is afflicted because he is poor: these two characters generally go together. The "wicked" man is the wicked one, the lawless one, the man of sin, and son of perdition, antichrist, the great persecutor of Christ's poor saints and faithful witnesses, more or less, ever since he has been in power; and which arises from the "pride" of his heart, not bearing that any should refuse to pay homage to him, contradict his will, or dissent from him. The word s signifies to follow after, to pursue, as Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, interpret it; and "to pursue hotly", as it is rendered in

Genesis 31:36; and denotes the vehemence and heat of his wrath and fury, with which antichrist persecutes the followers of the Lamb; hence persecution is compared to the heat of the sun, Matthew 13:6; Some render the words, "through the pride of the wicked the poor is burned", or "the poor burns" t: which may be understood either literally, of the burning of the martyrs of Jesus by antichrist, as here in Queen Mary's days; and which was foretold, that some of the saints should fall by flame, as well as by sword, captivity, and spoil; and to which that part of the description of Christ answers, whose feet are said to be like fine brass, as if it burned in a furnace; and which is prefaced to the epistle to the church at Thyatira, which is an emblem of the apostate church: see Daniel 11:33; or figuratively, of the poor saints burning with grief at the pride and wickedness of the man of sin, and with zeal for the honour and glory of God; see 2 Corinthians 11:29 Song of Solomon 8:6;

let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined: we read the words as a petition; and so the sense is, let the wicked persecutors be taken in the wicked and crafty schemes which they have devised for the hurt of others, as they are, or will be; see Psalms 9:15. But the psalmist is not yet come to petitions, nor does he until Psalms 10:12; but is all along describing the wickedness of the wicked one. It seems better therefore to render the words as do the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, "they are taken in the devices that they have imagined": and the meaning is, that the poor, who are persecuted by the wicked, are taken by their crafty schemes they lay for them, as Jarchi interprets it, and are put to death by them. So these words show the issue and event of persecution: and this sense best agrees with the boasted success of the wicked man Psalms 10:3.

s ידלק "fervide persequitur", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ferventer", Gejerus; so Ainsworth. t "Incenditur", V. L. "ardet", Tigurine version, Muis, Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The wicked in his pride - Margin: “In the pride of the wicked he doth.” The margin is a literal translation of the Hebrew; but the sense is the same. The meaning is, that the fact that the wicked persecuted the poor, in the case referred to, was to be traced to his pride, haughtiness, ambition; that is, in pursuing his own selfish and ambitious purposes, he became utterly regardless of the rights and comforts of others. He esteemed their interest and happiness as unworthy of regard in comparison with his own aims and purposes, and trampled down all their rights in prosecuting his own ends. The term “wicked” here - in the original in the singular number, רשׁע rāshâ‛, though perhaps used collectively - means properly the wicked one, or the wicked man, and doubtless refers to some enemy that David had in his eye, and from whom he was at that time suffering wrong. It is not possible now to ascertain with certainty who this was; but as the whole description proceeds in the singular number Psalms 10:3-11, it is most natural to suppose that this refers to one individual.

Doth persecute the poor - עני ידלק yid^elaq ‛ânı̂y. Prof. Alexander renders this, “burns the sufferer.” Luther, muss der Elende leiden - “must the afflicted suffer.” DeWette: angstigen sich die Elenden. The Latin Vulgate: “When the impious (man) is proud, the poor (man) is burned:” incenditur pauper. So the Septuagint. Gesenius (Lexicon) supposes it means, to burn with anguish. Horsley renders it, “In the exaltation of the impious one the helpless is consumed.” But it seems to me that our common version has expressed the true sense. The word rendered persecuteth - דלק dâlaq - means properly to burn, to flame; then to burn with love, with anger; then to burn after anyone, to persecute. See it; explained in the notes at Psalms 7:13. According to the most natural application of the word here, it would seem to mean, “In the pride of the wicked, he persecutes the poor or the afflicted;” that is, he burns after him; he is inflamed against him; he hotly pursues him. The word poor in this place - עני ‛ânı̂y - means the afflicted; the crushed; the downtrodden; those in circumstances of humiliation and poverty. The psalmist doubtless refers to himself as a poor and persecuted man; and the time in his life would seem to be when he was without a protector or friend, probably before he came to the throne.

Let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined - The artifice, plan, or scheme, which they have formed. That is, they have formed a scheme to take advantage of, or to destroy others; and the psalmist prays that, as a just retribution, this very calamity may come upon them. No man could have a right to complain if the mischief and wrong which he had devised for others should be brought upon himself; and if it were certain that this in all eases would occur, there could be nothing that would so effectually deter men from wrongdoing. The psalmist, then, simply prays that justice might be done. Compare Psalms 5:10, note; Psalms 7:15-16, notes. The plural form of the verb is used here, but it is not certain that the psalmist had more than one enemy in view, for on expressing his feelings toward that one enemy he may have designed to use language which would be applicable to all in similar circumstances.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 10:2. The wicked in his pride — On no principle of nature or reason can we account for a wicked man persecuting a humble follower of God because of his religion. The devil hates godliness; and the wicked man hates it also, because the devil is in his heart.