Psalms 10:9

Yahweh will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

They conspire and lurk, watching my steps. They are eager to take my life.

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

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.

In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

Who is like you, Yahweh, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

He is like a lion that is greedy of his prey, as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.

For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.

For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.

The wicked have laid a snare for me, yet I haven’t gone astray from your precepts.

If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.

Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

Through Yahweh of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they will fish them up. Afterward I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain, from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.

For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.

When it was day, some of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

“You shall not oppress an alien, for you know the heart of an alien, since you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

Moreover, my father, behold, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand; for in that I cut off the skirt of your robe, and didn’t kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor disobedience in my hand, and I have not sinned against you, though you hunt for my life to take it.

If my head is held high, you hunt me like a lion. Again you show yourself powerful to me.

Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?

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

He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.

They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

Let me hear joy and gladness, that the bones which you have broken may rejoice.

They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, “Who will see them?”

Those who hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head. Those who want to cut me off, being my enemies wrongfully, are mighty. I have to restore what I didn’t take away.

Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You have held my right hand.

There is no one like you among the gods, Lord, nor any deeds like your deeds.

Yahweh, God of Armies, who is a mighty one, like you? Yah, your faithfulness is around you.

The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God.

Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

Keep me from the snare which they have laid for me, from the traps of the workers of iniquity.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for me.

The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.

Don’t exploit the poor, because he is poor; and don’t crush the needy in court;

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

Their roaring will be like a lioness. They will roar like young lions. Yes, they shall roar, and seize their prey and carry it off, and there will be no one to deliver.

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

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

“Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you didn’t do it to one of the least of these, you didn’t do it to me.’

But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

“You shall not wrong an alien or oppress him, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.

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

Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; in addition to his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight.

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.

For, behold, the wicked bend their bows. They set their arrows on the strings, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.

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

Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?

They conspire with cunning against your people. They plot against your cherished ones.

The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.

The wicked desires the plunder of evil men, but the root of the righteous flourishes.

He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.

A dishonest man detests the righteous, and the upright in their ways detest the wicked.

Let a cry be heard from their houses when you bring a troop suddenly on them; for they have dug a pit to take me and hidden snares for my feet.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the local governors, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong decree, that whoever asks a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

He said: “Yahweh will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds will mourn, and the top of Carmel will wither.”

“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”

For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

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.

lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.

“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.”

All my bones shall say, “Yahweh, who is like you, who delivers the poor from him who is too strong for him; yes, the poor and the needy from him who robs him?”

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright on the path.

They also who seek after my life lay snares. Those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditate deceits all day long.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,

For he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

The proud have hidden a snare for me, they have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me.

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

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

As a roaring lion or a charging bear, so is a wicked ruler over helpless people.

What do you mean that you crush my people, and grind the face of the poor?” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

The ways of the scoundrel are evil. He devises wicked plans to destroy the humble with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.

For wicked men are found among my people. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

He is to me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery. Yes, they have troubled the poor and needy, and have oppressed the foreigner wrongfully.

You will say, ‘I will go up to the land of unwalled villages. I will go to those who are at rest, who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,

Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

Will a lion roar in the thicket, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out of his den, if he has caught nothing?

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

Therefore don’t yield to them, for more than forty men lie in wait for him, who have bound themselves under a curse to neither eat nor drink until they have killed him. Now they are ready, looking for the promise from you.”

that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;