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[1] Why standest thou far off, O Lord, and hidest thee in due time, even in affliction?
[2] The wicked with pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the crafts that they have imagined.
[3] For the wicked hath made boast of his own heart's desire, and the covetous blesseth himself: he contemneth the Lord.
[4] The wicked is so proud that he seeketh not for God: he thinketh always, There is no God.
[5] His ways alway prosper: thy judgments are high above his sight: therefore defieth he all his enemies.
[6] He saith in his heart, I shall never be moved, nor be in danger.
[7] His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
[8] He lieth in wait in the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are bent against the poor.
[9] He lieth in wait secretly, even as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to spoil the poor: he doth spoil the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
[10] He croucheth and boweth: therefore heaps of the poor do fall by his might.
[11] He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth away his face, and will never see.
[12] Arise, O Lord God: lift up thine hand: forget not the poor.
[13] Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? He saith in his heart, Thou wilt not regard.
[14] Yet thou hast seen it: for thou beholdest mischief and wrong, that thou mayest take it into thine hands: the poor committeth himself unto thee : for thou art the helper of the fatherless.
[15] Break thou the arm of the wicked and malicious: search his wickedness, and thou shalt find none.
[16] The Lord is King forever and ever: the heathen are destroyed forth of his land.
[17] Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the poor: thou preparest their heart: thou bendest thine ear to them,
[18] To judge the fatherless and poor, that earthly man cause to fear no more.
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