Psalm 10:6-16

6 He ¹says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I ²shall not meet adversity. ”

7 ³His mouth is filled with cursing and ⁴deceit and ⁵oppression; ⁶under his tongue are ⁷mischief and ⁸iniquity.

8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in ⁹hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;

9 he lurks in ambush like ¹⁰a lion in his ¹¹thicket; he ¹²lurks that he may seize the poor; he seizes the poor when he draws him into his ¹³net.

10 The helpless are crushed, sink down, and fall by his might.

11 He says in his heart, “God has forgotten, he has ¹⁴hidden his face, he ¹⁵will never see it. ”

12 ¹⁶Arise, O Lord; O God, ¹⁷lift up your hand; ¹⁸forget not the afflicted.

13 Why does the wicked ¹⁹renounce God and say in his heart, “You will not ²⁰call to account”?

14 But you do see, for you ²¹note mischief and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; to you the helpless ²²commits himself; you have been ²³the helper of the fatherless.

15 ²⁴Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; ²⁵call his wickedness to account till you find none.

16 ²⁶The Lord is king forever and ever; the ²⁷nations perish from his land.

Psalm 10:6-16 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.

Cross References

• 1. 10:6 ver. 11, 13
• 2. 10:6 [Rev. 18:7]
• 3. 10:7 Cited Rom. 3:14
• 4. 10:7 Ps. 36:3
• 5. 10:7 Ps. 55:11; 72:14
• 6. 10:7 Job 20:12; [Ps. 140:3; Song 4:11]
• 7. 10:7 Ps. 7:14
• 8. 10:7 Ps. 5:5; 6:8
• 9. 10:8 Ps. 17:12; 64:4; [Hab. 3:14]
• 10. 10:9 Ps. 17:12
• 11. 10:9 Job 38:40
• 12. 10:9 Ps. 59:3; Mic. 7:2
• 13. 10:9 Ps. 9:15
• 14. 10:11 [Ps. 73:11]; Job 22:13
• 15. 10:11 Ps. 94:7; Ezek. 8:12; 9:9; [Zeph. 1:12]
• 16. 10:12 See Ps. 3:7
• 17. 10:12 Mic. 5:9
• 18. 10:12 Ps. 9:12, 18
• 19. 10:13 ver. 3
• 20. 10:13 Ps. 9:12
• 21. 10:14 Ps. 33:13
• 22. 10:14 2 Tim. 1:12; 1 Pet. 4:19
• 23. 10:14 Ps. 68:5; 146:9; Hos. 14:3
• 24. 10:15 See Ps. 37:17
• 25. 10:15 [Ps. 37:36; Isa. 41:12]
• 26. 10:16 Ps. 29:10; Ex. 15:18; Jer. 10:10; Lam. 5:19; Dan. 4:34; 6:26; 1 Tim. 1:17; Rev. 11:15
• 27. 10:16 Deut. 8:20