Psalms 10:1-7

Psalm 10

1 Why do you stand so far away, LORD, hiding yourself in troubling times?
2 Meanwhile, the wicked are proudly in hot pursuit of those who suffer. Let them get caught in the very same schemes they've thought up!
3 The wicked brag about their body's cravings; the greedy reject the LORD, cursing.
4 At the peak of their wrath, the wicked don't seek God: There's no God— that's what they are always thinking.
5 Their ways are always twisted. Your rules are too lofty for them. They snort at all their foes.
6 They think to themselves, We'll never stumble. We'll never encounter any resistance.
7 Their mouths are filled with curses, dishonesty, violence. Under their tongues lie troublemaking and wrongdoing.

Psalms 10:1-7 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.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Pss 9 and 10 contain part of an acrostic poem and might originally be one poem in Heb.
  • [b]. Or soul’s
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