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1 WHy standst thou Lord a far? why hyd’st thy selfe in thimes of streight? 2 In pride the wicked perfecutes the poore afflicted wight:
snare them in their contrived plots. 3 For of his hearts desire the wicked boasts, and covetous blesseth, stirring Gods ire.
4 The wicked one by reason of his countenances pride will not seek after God: not God so all his thoughts abide.
5 his ways doe alwayes bring forth griefe, on high thy judgements bee above his sight: his pressing fores puffe at them all will hee.
6 Within his heart he thus hath sayd, I moved shall not bee: from aye to aye because I am not in adversitie.
7 His mouth with cursing filled is, deceits, and fallacy: under his tongue perversnes is, also iniquity.
8 In the close places of the townes he sits, in secret dens he slays the harmlesse: ‘gainst the poore slyly his eyes downe bends.
9 He closely lurks as lion lurks in den, the poore to catch he lurks, & trapping them in’s net th’ afflicted poore doth snatch.
10 Downe doth he crowtch, & to the dust humbly he boews with-all: that so a multitude of poore in his strong pawes may fall.
11 He saith in heart, God hath forgot: he hides his face away, so that he will not see this thing unto eternall aye.
12 Iehovah rise thou up, o God lift thou thine hand on hy, let not the meek afflicted one be out memory.
13 Wherefore doth the ungodly man contemne th’ almighty one? he in his heart saith, thou wilt ot make inquisition.
14 Thou seest, for thou markst wrong, & spight, with thy hand to repay: the poore leavs it to thee, thou art of fatherlesse the stay.
15 Break thou the arme of the wicked, and of the evil one. search thou out hiss impiety, untill thou finest none.
16 Iehovah king for ever is, and to eternall aye: out of his land the heathen folke are perished away.
17 The meeke afflicted-mans desire Iehovah, thou dost heare: thou firmly dost prepare their heart, thou makst attent thine eare.
18 To judge the faterless & poore: that adde no more he may sorrowfull man out of the land with terror to dismay.
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