Psalm 10 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

A Prayer for the Overthrow of the Wicked.

Psa 10:1(LXX 9:22) [fn]Why standest thou afar off, O Lord? why dost thou overlook us in times of need, in affliction?

Psa 10:2(LXX 9:23) While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is [fn]hotly pursued: the wicked are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

Psa 10:3

Psa 10:3(LXX 9:24) Because the sinner praises himself for the desires of his heart; and the unjust one blesses himself.

Psa 10:4

Psa 10:4(LXX 9:25) The sinner has provoked the Lord: according to the abundance of his [fn]pride he will not seek after him: God is not before him.

Psa 10:5

Psa 10:5(LXX 9:26) His ways are [fn]profane at all times; thy judgments are removed from before him: he will gain the mastery over all his enemies.

Psa 10:6

Psa 10:6(LXX 9:27) For he has said in his heart, I shall not be moved, continuing without evil from generation to generation. [fn]

Psa 10:7

Psa 10:7(LXX 9:28) Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

Psa 10:8

Psa 10:8(LXX 9:29) He lies in wait with rich men in secret places, in order to slay the innocent: his eyes are [fn]set against the poor.

Psa 10:9

Psa 10:9(LXX 9:30) He lies in wait in secret as a lion in his den: he lies in wait to ravish the poor, to ravish the poor when he draws him after him: he will bring him down in his snare.

Psa 10:10

Psa 10:10(LXX 9:31) He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.

Psa 10:11

Psa 10:11(LXX 9:32) For he has said in his heart, God has forgotten: he has turned away his face so as never to look.

Psa 10:12

Psa 10:12(LXX 9:33) Arise, O Lord God; let thy hand be lifted up: forget not the poor.

Psa 10:13

Psa 10:13(LXX 9:34) Wherefore has the wicked provoked God? for he has said in his heart, He will not require it.

Psa 10:14

Psa 10:14(LXX 9:35) Thou seest it; for thou dost observe trouble and wrath, to deliver them into thy hands: the poor has been left to thee; thou wast a helper to the orphan.

Psa 10:15

Psa 10:15(LXX 9:36) Break thou the arm of the sinner and wicked man: his sin shall be sought for, and shall not be found.

Psa 10:16

Psa 10:16(LXX 9:37) The Lord shall reign for ever, even for ever and ever: ye Gentiles shall perish out of his land.

Psa 10:17

Psa 10:17(LXX 9:38) The Lord has heard the desire of the poor: thine ear has inclined to the preparation of their heart;

Psa 10:18

Psa 10:18(LXX 9:39) to plead for the orphan and afflicted, that man may no more boast upon the earth.

BES Footnotes

(10:1)

Note.—Here begins a change of numbers as compared with the Heb. which continues to Ps. 146, this psalm having no number, and the eleventh being called the tenth. The following verses 22-39 are numbered 1-18 in the original text.

(10:2)

Gr. inflamed, as in a fever.

Or, anger.

Gr. profaned.

Gr. look.