Psalmen 10:12-18

12 Sta op, HEERE God! hef Uw hand op, vergeet de ellendigen niet.
13 Waarom lastert de goddeloze God? zegt in zijn hart: Gij zult het niet zoeken?
14 Gij ziet het immers; want Gij aanschouwt de moeite en het verdriet, opdat men het in Uw hand geve; op U verlaat zich de arme, Gij zijt geweest een Helper van den wees.
15 Breek den arm des goddelozen en bozen. zoek zijn goddeloosheid, totdat Gij haar niet vindt.
16 De HEERE is Koning eeuwiglijk en altoos; de heidenen zijn vergaan uit Zijn land.
17 HEERE! Gij hebt den wens der zachtmoedigen gehoord; Gij zult hun hart sterken, Uw oor zal opmerken;
18 Om den wees en verdrukte recht te doen; opdat een mens van de aarde niet meer voortvare geweld te bedrijven.

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Psalmen 10:12-18 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.

The Dutch Staten Vertaling translation is in the public domain.