Salmos 10:9-18

9 Acecha de encubierto, como el león desde su cama; acecha para arrebatar al pobre; arrebata al pobre trayéndolo en su red.

10 Se encoge, se agacha, y caen en sus fuerzas muchos desdichados.

11 Dice en su corazón: Dios está olvidado, ha encubierto su rostro; nunca lo vio.

12 Levántate, oh SEÑOR Dios, alza tu mano, no te olvides de los humildes.

13 ¿Por qué irrita el malo a Dios? En su corazón ha dicho que no lo inquirirás.

14 Tú has visto; porque tú miras el trabajo, y el enojo, para dar justicia en tus manos; a ti se acoge el pobre, tú eres el amparo del huérfano.

15 Quebranta el brazo del inicuo; del malo buscarás su maldad, y no la hallarás.

16 El SEÑOR, Rey eterno y perpetuo; de su tierra fueron destruidos los gentiles.

17 El deseo de los humildes oíste, oh SEÑOR; tú dispones su corazón, y haces atento tu oído;

18 para juzgar al huérfano y al pobre; no volverá más a hacer violencia el hombre de la tierra.

Salmos 10:9-18 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.