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The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers

PSALMS. Finn: I. Psnms xo, 10A. IO II I2 16

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PSALM 10. How long, LORD, will You stand afar And hide in the time of distress ? When the haughty bad press on the poor, And catch in the traps they have set? The wicked in pride of soul boasts, Approves greed, and despises the LORD, Whom the wicked in pride never seeks,-·—· In his thought there is never a Goo! At all times his path is perverse, He flings Your Decrees from himself, And sneers at each one of their bonds. His heart says he cannot be moved, Nor ever experience distress. Revolt and fraud thus Bil his mouth, And falsehood hides under his tongue; In ambush he sits in the streets, And in secret he murders the weak. His eyes lick them up in advance, Like a lion he lies in his lair, Lies still to lay hold of the weak, And wrap them in folds of his net. He bends, and he thrusts, and he fella, O'erpowers the wretched by force, GOD forgets He hides and He never can see JEHOVAH, rise I lift up Your hand And no longer forget of the poor; For why should the villain mock GOD, And think that You never will care? See crime and wrong both advance, So prepare for the use of Your hand, The helpless can only trust You To give to the feeble Your strength, So shatter the criminal's arm, And chase the wrong till it is not. PSALM 1oA. ln Qntbzm. LoRD, our Eternal King, Drive pagans from the Land, Hear, LORD, the poor's desire; Give quiet to their heart. Incline Your ear to hear, And help the weak to right, And not permit again To drive men from the land. f Psa· !I No·r1¤:.-Psalm I0 is evidently two dis- arranged the Books oms, as we npw tinct anthems of widely different aes, one have them, for um in the services of he ¥by David, the other after the captiv ty, con~ Temple and Synagogues, after the retgyn of fused wither by the Hebrew editors, the Tribe of }udah from Babylon.-F. . who, as t e Great Sanhedrim, selected and layo
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