Psalms 10:12

Why do you hide your face, and consider me your enemy?

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

Praise be to Yahweh, for he has shown me his marvelous loving kindness in a strong city.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

for Yahweh will plead their case, and plunder the life of those who plunder them.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.

Reuben answered them, saying, “Didn’t I tell you, saying, ‘Don’t sin against the child,’ and you wouldn’t listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required.”

Yahweh, how my adversaries have increased! Many are those who rise up against me.

For he who avenges blood remembers them. He doesn’t forget the cry of the afflicted.

As for God, his way is perfect. Yahweh’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

Now I know that Yahweh saves his anointed. He will answer him from his holy heaven, with the saving strength of his right hand.

Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

How long, Yahweh? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath burn like fire?

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, should I not now require his blood from your hand, and rid the earth of you?”

I broke the jaws of the unrighteous and plucked the prey out of his teeth.

For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever.

Oh love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses him who behaves arrogantly.

Wake up! Rise up to defend me, my God! My Lord, contend for me!

Yahweh, why do you reject my soul? Why do you hide your face from me?

I will delight myself in your commandments, because I love them.

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

to the festal gathering and assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect,

Yahweh said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

Now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me. Moreover I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

They put away the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”

The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

so that they caused the cry of the poor to come to him. He heard the cry of the afflicted.

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

My soul is also in great anguish. But you, Yahweh—how long?

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

May all my enemies be ashamed and dismayed. They shall turn back, they shall be disgraced suddenly.

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is arrogant, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.

“Because of the oppression of the weak and because of the groaning of the needy, I will now arise,” says Yahweh; “I will set him in safety from those who malign him.”

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

You, Yahweh God of Armies, the God of Israel, rouse yourself to punish the nations. Show no mercy to the wicked traitors.

So that your beloved may be delivered, save with your right hand, and answer us.

Why do you draw back your hand, even your right hand? Take it from your chest and consume them!

when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.

He did marvelous things in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.

Arise, God, judge the earth, for you inherit all of the nations.

Yahweh executes righteous acts, and justice for all who are oppressed.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

Awake, awake, put on strength, arm of Yahweh! Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Isn’t it you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the monster?

He has also broken my teeth with gravel. He has covered me with ashes.

Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

“Let the nations arouse themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.

Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.

Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.

Arise, Yahweh! Don’t let man prevail. Let the nations be judged in your sight.

How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies.

Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?”

Rise up, you judge of the earth. Pay back the proud what they deserve.

I reach out my hands for your commandments, which I love. I will meditate on your statutes.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.