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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 10, Verse 2

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Why standest thou afar off, O LORD? [why] hidest thou [thyself] in times of trouble?
King James Version
The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
American Standard Version
In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
New English Translation
The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.
World English Bible
In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.
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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 God]: God [is] not in all his thoughts.
5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
6
He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for [I shall] never [be] in adversity.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.
8
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10
He croucheth, [and] humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see [it].
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Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.