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Psalms 10:9-18

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9 They lie in ambush in secret places, like a lion in its lair. They lie in ambush so they can seize those who suffer! They seize the poor, all right, dragging them off in their nets.
10 Their helpless victims are crushed; they collapse, falling prey to the strength of the wicked.
11 The wicked think to themselves: God has forgotten. God has hidden his face. God never sees anything!
12 Get up, LORD! Get your fist ready, God! Don't forget the ones who suffer!
13 Why do the wicked reject God? Why do they think to themselves that you won't find out?
14 But you do see! You do see troublemaking and grief, and you do something about it! The helpless leave it all to you. You are the orphan's helper.
15 Break the arms of those who are wicked and evil. Seek out their wickedness until there's no more to find.
16 The LORD rules forever and always! The nations will vanish from his land.
17 LORD, you listen to the desires of those who suffer. You steady their hearts; you listen closely to them,
18 to establish justice for the orphan and the oppressed, so that people of the land will never again be terrified.
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Psalms 10:9-18 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 10

This psalm in the Septuagint version, and those that follow it, is a part and continuation of the preceding psalm, and makes but one with it; hence in these versions the number of the following psalms differ from others, and what is the eleventh with others is the tenth with them, and so on to the hundred fourteenth and one hundred fifteenth, which also are put into one; but in order to make up the whole number of one hundred and fifty, the hundred sixteenth and the hundred forty seventh are both divided into two; and indeed the subject of this psalm is much the same with the former. Antichrist and antichristian times are very manifestly described; the impiety, blasphemy, and atheism of the man of sin; his pride, haughtiness, boasting of himself, and presumption of security; his persecution of the poor, and murder of innocents, are plainly pointed at; nor does the character of the man of the earth agree to well to any as to him: his times are times of trouble; but at the end of them the kingdom of Christ will appear in great glory, when the Gentiles, the antichristian nations, will perish out of his land, Ps 10:1-11,16,18.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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