Salmos 10:1-9

1 Salmo 10
Oh Señor
, ¿por qué permaneces tan distante?
¿Por qué te escondes cuando estoy en apuros?

2 Con arrogancia los malvados persiguen a los pobres;
¡que sean atrapados en el mal que traman para otros!

3 Pues hacen alarde de sus malos deseos;
elogian al codicioso y maldicen al Señor
.

4 Los malvados son demasiado orgullosos para buscar a Dios;
parece que piensan que Dios está muerto.

5 Sin embargo, prosperan en todo lo que hacen.
No ven que les espera tu castigo;
miran con desdén a todos sus enemigos.

6 Piensan: «¡Jamás nos sucederá algo malo!
¡Estaremos para siempre sin problemas!».

7 Su boca está llena de maldiciones, mentiras y amenazas;
tienen maldad y violencia en la punta de la lengua.

8 Se esconden en emboscada en las aldeas,
a la espera para matar a gente inocente;
siempre buscan víctimas indefensas.

9 Como leones agazapados en sus escondites,
esperan para lanzarse sobre los débiles.
Como cazadores capturan a los indefensos
y los arrastran envueltos en redes.

Salmos 10:1-9 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.