Salmos 10:8-18

8 Se sienta al acecho en las aldeas, en los escondrijos mata al inocente; sus ojos espían al desvalido.

9 Acecha en el escondrijo como león en su guarida; acecha para atrapar al afligido, y atrapa al afligido arrastrándolo a su red.

10 Se agazapa, se encoge, y los desdichados caen en sus garras.

11 Dice en su corazón: Dios se ha olvidado; ha escondido su rostro; no lo verá jamás.

12 Levántate, oh SEÑOR; alza, oh Dios, tu mano. No te olvides de los pobres.

13 ¿Por qué ha despreciado el impío a Dios? Ha dicho en su corazón: Tú no lo requerirás.

14 Tú lo has visto, porque has contemplado la malicia y la vejación, para hacer justicia con tu mano. A ti se acoge el desvalido; tú has sido amparo del huérfano.

15 Quiebra tú el brazo del impío y del malvado; persigue su maldad hasta que desaparezca.

16 El SEÑOR es Rey eternamente y para siempre; las naciones han perecido de su tierra.

17 Oh SEÑOR, tú has oído el deseo de los humildes; tú fortalecerás su corazón e inclinarás tu oído

18 para vindicar al huérfano y al afligido; para que no vuelva a causar terror el hombre de la tierra.

Salmos 10:8-18 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.